United Nations and other international missions


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On this page you can see plates that I believe are direclty issued by the United Nations (or other international bodies) themselves. Plates for use by the United Nations or its staff that are issued by the authorities of the host country are shown on the respective country's page.


Europe
United Nations license plate
United Nations license plate
United Nations license plate
UNPROFOR = United Nations Protection Force, stationed in ex-Yugoslavia February 1992 to March 1995.

Later UN missions in the area (UNCRO, UNTAES, UNPREDEP, UNMOP) used plates with only UN as prefix.

Former UNPROFOR vehicles used for those missions kept their plates with the letters PF painted out.
United Nations license plate UNHCR = United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. This plate was used in the former Yugoslavian area in the 1990s/early 2000s.
SFOR license plate SFOR = Stabilization Force. This NATO-led force was stationed in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1996 to 2002.
NATO license plate 2004 onwards plate from NATO headquarters in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
OSCE license plate OSCE = Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, MB = Mission in Bosnia.
ECTF license plate ECTF = European Community Task Force. Stationed in former Yugoslavia 1992-1996.
United Nations license plate UNFICYP = United Nations Forces in Cyprus.

Older type with UN only, introduced in 1964
United Nations license plate
United Nations license plate
UNFICYP = United Nations Forces in Cyprus.

Newer plates with UNF prefix, which was used until about 2006.

1-99: Headquarters
400-499: Sector 4

Middle East
United Nations license plate UNDOF = United Nations Disengagement Observer Force.

Plate used about 1990 by Austrian UN Forces stationed on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.
United Nations license plate Private vehicle plate for UNDOF members. The picture is not distorted, the plate is really not perfectly rectangular.
United Nations license plate UNTSO = United Nations Truce Supervising Organization, based in Israel.
United Nations license plate UNIFIL = United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.
United Nations license plate Private vehicle plate, aquired from Israel. Most likely, it is for UNTSO employees.
United Nations license plate Private vehicle plate, used in the Middle East, probably Israel.
United Nations license plate UNIIMOG = United Nations Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group, based on the border between the two countries in the late 1980s.
MFO license plate MFO = Multinational Forces and Observers, based on the Sinai Peninsula. This is not a UN mission. The plate has a Sticker "MFO AUDIT 1992", and seems to be American made.

Asia
United Nations license plate
United Nations license plate
UNTAC = United Nations Temporary Authority In Cambodia, 1992-1993.
United Nations license plate UNTAET = United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor, 1999-2002.
United Nations license plate UNOTIL = United Nations Office in Timor-Leste, 2005-2006.

Africa
United Nations license plate UNAVEM = United Nations Angola Verification Mission. January 1989 to June 1997. Plate made in South African style.
United Nations license plate UNTAG = United Nations Transition Assistance Group. Used in Namibia April 1989 to March 1990 during the transition to independence.
United Nations license plate United Nations Police plate used in Namibia in 1989/1990 during the transition to independence.
United Nations license plate ONUMOZ = United Nations Operation in Mozambique, 1992-1994.
United Nations license plate UNAMIR = United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda, ca. 1993.

Americas
United Nations license plate MINUHA = Mission des Nations Unies en Haïti. September 1993 to June 1996.

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