United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

The United Nations Organization for Industrial Development (UNIDO) is one of the specialized agencies of the UN, whose purpose is to improve the economy of the States through industrialization, mainly in developing countries and, in the same way , establishes cooperation channels between developed and developing countries. Its Constitutive Treaty establishes as the primary objective of the Organization to “… promote and accelerate industrial development in developing countries with a view to contributing to the establishment of a new international economic order. The Organization will also promote industrial development and cooperation at the global, regional and national levels, as well as at the sectoral level. UNIDO is created by Resolution 2089 (XX), of the United Nations General Assembly (UNIDO), of December 20, 1965, which states the following: «Decides to establish, within the United Nations, an organization for the promotion of industrial development to be called the United Nations Industrial Development Organization "and also" Decides that the administrative and research activities of this organization be financed from the regular budget of the United Nations ... ". The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) became part of the specialized bodies of the United Nations in 1979. Its headquarters are in Vienna, Austria.

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