{"id":522,"date":"2017-03-09T14:49:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T13:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/?page_id=522\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T09:52:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T08:52:31","slug":"multilateral-relations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/the-order-of-malta\/diplomatic-activities\/multilateral-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Multilateral relations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Supporting humanitarian action<\/a><\/h5>\n
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Multilateral relations with the United Nations, European Union and the principal international organisations allow the Sovereign Order of Malta to take its expertise from the field to the diplomatic table.<\/p>\n

Through its ambassadors and diplomatic representatives, the Order\u2019s views on issues at the core of its commitment – human rights, healthcare, food security \u2013 are represented on the international stage.<\/p>\n

The Sovereign Order of Malta contributes with its expertise to global consultations and to the definition of possible fields of cooperation in healthcare, social assistance and emergency relief.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Sovereign Order of Malta has relations at Ambassador level<\/b><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n
European Union<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Sovereign Order of Malta has permanent observer missions to the United Nations and its Specialised Agencies:<\/b><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n
\nUnited Nations \u2013 New York
\nUnited Nations \u2013 Geneva
\nUnited Nations \u2013 Vienna<\/p>\n

ESCAP \u2013 United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific \u2013 (Bangkok)
\nFAO \u2013 Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations \u2013 (Rome)
\nIAEA \u2013 International Atomic Energy Agency \u2013 (Vienna)
\nIFAD \u2013 International Fund for Agricultural Development \u2013 (Rome)
\nUNECA – United Nations Economic Commission for Africa – (Addis Ababa)
\nUNEP \u2013 United Nations Environment Programme \u2013 (Nairobi)
\nUNESCO \u2013 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization \u2013 (Paris)
\nUNHCHR \u2013 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights \u2013 (Geneva)
\nUNHCR \u2013 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees \u2013 (Geneva)
\nUNIDO \u2013 United Nations Industrial Development Organization \u2013 (Vienna)
\nUNODC \u2013 United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime \u2013 (Vienna)
\nUNOOSA \u2013 United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs \u2013 (Vienna)
\nWFP \u2013 World Food Programme of the United Nations \u2013 (Rome)
\nWHO \u2013 World Health Organization \u2013 (Geneva)\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Sovereign Order of Malta has delegations or representations to International Organisations:<\/b><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n
\nAU \u2013 African Union \u2013 (Addis Ababa)
\nCPLP \u2013 Community of Portuguese Language Countries \u2013 Lisbon
\nCTBTO- Preparatory Commission for the comprehensive nuclear-test-ban Treaty Organization \u2013 (Vienna)
\nICCROM \u2013 International Centre for the study of the preservation and restoration of cultural property \u2013 (Rome)
\nICMM \u2013 International Committee of Military Medicine \u2013 (Brussels)
\nICRC \u2013 International Committee of the Red Cross \u2013 (Geneva)
\nIDB \u2013 Inter-American Development Bank \u2013 (Washington D.C.)
\nIIHL \u2013 International Institute of Humanitarian Law \u2013 (Sanremo, Geneva)
\nIFRC -International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies \u2013 (Geneva)
\nIOM \u2013 International Organization for Migration \u2013 (Geneva)
\nIOF \u2013 International Organization of La Francophonie \u2013 (Paris)
\nPAM \u2013 Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean \u2013 (Malta)
\nSICA \u2013 Central American Integration System – (San Salvador)
\nUNIDROIT \u2013 International Institute for the Unification of Private Law \u2013 (Rome)
\nUNILAT- Latin Union \u2013 (Santo Domingo, Paris)
\nCouncil of Europe \u2013 (Strasbourg)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supporting humanitarian action Multilateral relations with the United Nations, European Union and the principal international organisations allow the Sovereign Order of Malta to take its expertise from the field to the diplomatic table. Through its ambassadors and diplomatic representatives, the Order\u2019s views on issues at the core of its commitment – human rights, healthcare, food […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":372,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-rsidebar.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-522","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6808,"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522\/revisions\/6808"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ordredemaltesuisse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}