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The role of the Secretary-General: a personal history.(United Nations Secretaries-General)

Publication: UN Chronicle
Publication Date: 01-MAR-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Ban Ki-moon has taken the "most impossible job in the world", as Trygve Lie famously said about the role of the Secretary-General. The Charter of the United Nations included the Secretariat among its principal organs, most certainly to grant some political prerogatives to the According to the...

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...Secretary-General. Charter, he is "the chief administrative officer of the Organization". It further stipulates that he "may bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security".

In the early days of the United Nations, an atmosphere of extreme enthusiasm prevailed. Delegates were convinced they had adopted a system of collective security that would ban all wars forever, a...

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