Conference Management Service (CMS)
The main function of Conference Management Service (CMS) is to provide Member States and intergovernmental bodies with the services required for the smooth functioning of meetings.
The services provided include:
- Planning and organizing meetings in Vienna and throughout the world in cooperation with substantive secretariats of the United Nations Office at Vienna, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
- Providing simultaneous interpretation during the intergovernmental meetings and expert group meetings of those organizations and during the meetings of the International Atomic Energy Agency in the six official languages of the United Nations (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish)
- Organizing meeting room facilities in the Vienna International Centre and at other locations
- Editing, translating, formatting, designing, printing and distributing official documents and publications in the six official languages of the United Nations
For more information on conferences and meetings serviced by CMS, click here.
Organizational structure
Conference Management Service
- Interpretation Section
- Planning, Coordination and Meetings Section
- Documents Control Unit
- Meetings Control and Servicing Unit
- Reproduction and Distribution Unit
- Publishing, Referencing and English Section
- Editorial Control Unit
- Electronic Publishing Unit
- English Translation and Text Processing Unit
- Library and Linguistic Support Unit
- Translation and Text Processing Sections
- Arabic
- Chinese
- French
- Russian
- Spanish