As RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the international organization, all employees and delegates of the headquarters are invited to take refuge in place.
A helicopter is hovering over the cordon zone
Police with automatic weapons do not yet approach the armed man.
He walks from side to side at the fence of the UN building.
Earlier it was reported that the area near the UN headquarters in New York was cordoned off after the police received reports of a man with a firearm in the area.