The European-based specialized agencies first set up LOs in New York during the 1940s and 1950s, while in the following decades, the United Nations funds and programmes established offices in Geneva.
设在欧洲的专门机构最早在1940和1950年代在纽约设立了联络处，之后的几十年里，联合国各基金和方案又在日内瓦设立了办事处。