The UN Secretary-General appoints replacements in case of vacancy for the remainder of the term of office concerned.

The General Assembly appoints the Secretary-General of the United Nations on recommendation of the Security Council, and adopts rules governing the administration of the Secretariat.

On recommendation of that body, the Grand Prior appoints all the Grand Officers, besides himself, and may also appoint members of either Grade I or Grade II as other officers, known as the Principal Officers, such as the Secretary-General, and honorary officers, such as the Genealogist, who all hold office for a period not exceeding three years.

In 2007 Brice Lalonde was designated by President Sarkozy French Climate Ambassador and has been heavily invested in the multilateral climate change negotiations until the end of 2010, when he was designated by the UN Secretary-General Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development ( UNCSD ), which is to be held in Rio de Janeiro ( Brazil ) in June 2012.

Secretary-General Hammarskjold decided that it would be preferable if the U.N. troops sent into the Congo were to come from African, or at least nonwhite, nations -- certainly not from the U.S., Russia, Great Britain or France.

In 2012, Hassan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali ( 6th United Nations Secretary-General and current President of the UNESCO Panel on Democracy and Development ) gave remarks at the Unification Church event in UNESCO's headquarters in France, along with Akiko Yamanaka ( parliamentarian of Diet of Japan, Cambridge University professor and former Deputy-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan ) and other 300 politicians and religious leaders.

In June 1986 Lange obtained a political deal with France over the Rainbow Warrior affair, presided over by United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar.

He was Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1945 to 1946 and British Ambassador to France between 1954 and 1960. the title is held by his son, the second Baron, who succeeded in 1996.

From 2000-2009, Wiesel served as Secretary-General of the Human Frontier Science Program, an organization headquartered in Strasbourg, France, which supports international and interdisciplinary collaboration between investigators in the life sciences.

' In France Maurice Mercier, Secretary-General of the textile workers within the Force Ouvriere, said: ' Class war today means one half of humanity against the other half, each possessing a powerful arsenal of destruction ... Not one cry of hatred, not one hour of work lost, one one drop of blood shed-that is the revolution to which MRA calls bosses and workers.

' In France Maurice Mercier, Secretary-General of the textile workers within the Force Ouvriere, said: ' Class war today means one half of humanity against the other half, each possessing a powerful arsenal of destruction ... Not one cry of hatred, not one hour of work lost, one one drop of blood shed-that is the revolution to which MRA calls bosses and workers.

" After the reconciliation between France and Guinea in July 1975, Sékou Touré suggested, at a meal celebrating the occasion, that Telli could be a suitable candidate to be Secretary-General of the United Nations.

* Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi ( France ), Former United Nations Special Adviser to the Secretary-General

After leaving his post as OAU Secretary-General in 1983, Kodjo lived in France, where he taught at the Sorbonne, wrote for Jeune Afrique, and founded a magazine, Afrique 2000.

Among the most familiar faces worldwide were the President of the United States and former Presidents of the United States, the Prime Minister of Italy, the current and former Presidents of Brazil, the President of Poland, the President of France, the President of Ireland, the Taoiseach of Ireland, the King and Queen of Spain, King Albert II and Queen Paola of Belgium, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the Chancellor of Germany and the President of Germany, the Prince of Wales ( who postponed his wedding to Camilla Parker-Bowles by 24 hours, to attend ), the Prime Minister of Canada, the King and Queen of Jordan, the President of Afghanistan, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

In June 1986, in a political deal with Prime Minister of New Zealand David Lange, presided over by United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, France agreed to pay NZ $ 13 million ( USD $ 6. 5 million ) to New Zealand and apologise, in return for which Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur would be detained at the French military base on Hao Atoll for three years.

In 1983, Brundtland was invited by then United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar to establish and chair the World Commission on Environment and Development ( WCED ), widely referred to as the Brundtland Commission, developing the broad political concept of sustainable development in the course of extensive public hearings that were distinguished by their inclusiveness and published its report Our Common Future in April 1987.

In May 2007, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named Brundtland, as well as Ricardo Lagos ( the former president of Chile ), and Han Seung-soo ( the former foreign minister of South Korea ), to serve as UN Special Envoys for Climate Change.

Sweden has been a member of the United Nations since 19 November 1946, and participates actively in the activities of the organisation, including as an elected member of the Security Council ( 1957 – 1958, 1975 – 1976 and 1997 – 1998 ), providing Dag Hammarskjöld as the second elected Secretary-General of the UN, etc.

In 1969, Vice President Hubert Humphrey would have announced the election of his opponent, Richard Nixon ; however, on the date of the Congressional joint session ( January 6 ), Humphrey was in Norway attending the funeral of Trygve Lie, the first elected Secretary-General of the United Nations.

After the 1956 War ( often referred to as the Suez Crisis ), UNTSO greatly assisted the establishment of the United Nations Emergency Force ( UNEF ); in large measure the result of diplomatic efforts of the UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and a proposal from Canadian minister of external affairs Lester Pearson, by providing a group of trained military personnel for peacekeeping and emergency operations to UNEF It was the first time UNTSO's expertise was tapped in order to establish a United Nations Mission.

* Chen Jian ( 陈健 ), vice Secretary-General of the United Nations

It was-and still is-headed by Secretary-General Ahmed Jibril, also known by the kunya " Abu Jihad " ( not to be confused with Khalil al-Wazir, the head of Fatah's armed wing who used the same nom de guerre ), a former military officer in the Syrian Army who had been one of the PFLP's early leaders.

In its public annual report to the UN secretary general ( presented to the UN General Assembly ), the OIOS reported concerning the case that it had “ submitted a report to the Secretary-General supporting the allegations and recommended that appropriate actions be taken accordingly .”

* Dirk Stikker ( 1897 – 1979 ), Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs ( 1948 – 1952 ), NATO Secretary-General ( 1961 – 1964 )

* Calvin Wen ( 溫炳原 ), a former Secretary-General of the Party, competed in the by-election in Da ' an District due to the resignation of Diane Lee in 2009.

* Kofi Annan, ( b 1938 ), former Secretary-General of the United Nations ( 1 / Jan / 1997-1 / Jan / 2007 )

*** Lee Ying-yuan 李應元 / 李应元 ( 1953 ; ancestral Zhao ' an, Fujian ; born in Lunbei, Yunlin, Taiwan ), Secretary-General, Executive Yuan, 2005 ; Secretary-General, Democratic Progressive Party, 2008 ; Ran and lost to Ma Ying-jeou, Taipei Mayor Elections, 2002

After the party president, the most important LDP officials are the Secretary-General ( kanjicho ), and the chairmen of the LDP Executive Council ( somukaicho ) and of the Policy Affairs Research Council or " PARC " ( 政務調査会 seimu chōsakai ).

Major-General Erskine ( Ghana ), Chief of Staff of UNTSO reported to the Secretary-General and the Security Council ( S / 14789, S / 15194 ) that from August 1981 to May 1982, inclusive, there were 2096 violations of Lebanese airspace and 652 violations of Lebanese territorial waters.

The only film actually shot on location in the UN headquarters is The Interpreter ( 2005 ), filmed with the consent of the Secretary-General, although some scenes in the political documentary film U. N. Me were surreptitiously filmed inside the building without permission.

It is often granted to the organization's head as well, and to those chiefs of UN diplomatic missions, such as Resident Coordinators ( who are the designated representatives of the Secretary-General ), who are accredited at the Head of State ( like an Ambassador ), or the lower Head of Government level.

* Unvanquished: A U. S .- U. N. Saga ( 1999 ), about his time as Secretary-General at the UN

* U Thant ( 1909 – 1974 ), former United Nations Secretary-General.

* Kurt Waldheim ( 1918 – 2007 ), UN Secretary-General, Austrian president

Paris has long trained the French and international political and economic elite: specifically the three immediate past French presidents ( Nicolas Sarkozy, Jacques Chirac and François Mitterrand ), thirteen past or present French prime ministers, twelve past or present foreign heads of state or government, and a former United Nations Secretary-General.

Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn, GCMG, GCVO, CB, known as Gladwyn Jebb ( 25 April 1900 – 24 October 1996 ), was a prominent British civil servant, diplomat and politician as well as the Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations.

The Commonwealth Secretary-General should not be confused with the Head of the Commonwealth, who is currently Queen Elizabeth II.

The headquarters of the Secretary-General, as with the Secretariat generally, is Marlborough House, a former royal residence in London, which was placed at the disposal of the Secretariat by Queen Elizabeth II.

Commonwealth Day is the annual celebration of the Commonwealth of Nations held on the second Monday in March, and marked by a multi-faith service in Westminster Abbey, normally attended by HM Queen Elizabeth II, Head of the Commonwealth, with the Commonwealth Secretary-General and Commonwealth High Commissioners in London.

In December 2003, Mr. Chowdhury was designated as the Secretary-General of the International Meeting for the ten-year review of the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of the Small Island Developing States held in Mauritius from 10-14 January 2005.