In 1955 Siegel met his wife, Helen Hartman, an aide in the office of United Nations Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold.

This as well as the assassination of Lumumba and the death of Secretary-General Hammarskjold would lead to the UN allowing the use of force by UN troops in the Congo .” In 1961, UN troops under aggressive commanders pushed into Katanga, and began routing Tshombe ’ s armed forces.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 808 of February 22, 1993 decided that " an international tribunal shall be established for the prosecution of persons responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991 " and calling on the Secretary-General to " submit for consideration by the Council … a report on all aspects of this matter, including specific proposals and where appropriate options … taking into account suggestions put forward in this regard by Member States ".

The High Commissioner is responsible for all the activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as for its administration, and carries out the functions specifically assigned to him or her by the General Assembly in its resolution 48 / 141 of 20 December 1993 and subsequent resolutions of policy-making bodies ; advises the Secretary-General on the policies of the United Nations in the area of human rights ; ensures that substantive and administrative support is given to the projects, activities, organs and bodies of the human rights programme ; represents the Secretary-General at meetings of human rights organs and at other human rights events ; and carries out special assignments as decided by the Secretary-General.

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon decided to reconfigure the mission for a temporary period.

The Secretary-General reviewed the report and the responses of the High Commissioner and the senior manager to the report, and decided that the complaint could not be substantiated by the evidence and therefore closed the matter.

He said he decided, with " great sadness ", to leave Norwegian politics because he was applying for the position of Secretary-General of the Council of Europe.

Since the 1993 CHOGM, it has been decided that the Secretary-General is elected to a maximum of two four-year terms.

An administrative position but it was decided that the Secretary-General would also be appointed High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy ( CFSP ).

In November 2007, the PDS Steering Committee abolished Sall's position of Deputy Secretary-General, which had been the second most powerful position in the party, and it decided to submit a bill to the National Assembly that would reduce the term of the President of the National Assembly from five years to one year.

" He was also announced by Secretary-General Yukio Hatoyama to have decided to switch from Iwate Constituency No. 4 to Tokyo Constituency No. 12 at the next House of Representatives election.

On 1 October 2004, the UN Security Council decided to deploy 5, 900 more soldiers to Congo, although UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan had asked for some 12, 000.

Reporting on these developments in his annual report to the Authority in April 2008, Secretary-General Nandan referred also to the upward trend in demand and prices for cobalt, copper, nickel and manganese, the main metals that would be derived from seabed mining, and he noted that technologies being developed for offshore extraction could be adapted for deep sea mining.

In 1961, U Thant, then Burma's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and former Secretary to the Prime Minister, was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations ; he was the first non-Westerner to head any international organization and would serve as UN Secretary-General for ten years.

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.

The significance of this collaboration, WTO Secretary-General Mr. Francesco Frangialli claimed, would lie in " the increased visibility it gives the WTO, and the recognition that will be accorded to. Tourism will be considered on an equal footing with other major activities of human society ".

On 8 November, the representative of Israel informed the Secretary-General that his Government would withdraw its forces from Egypt immediately after the conclusion of satisfactory arrangements with the United Nations in connection with the Emergency International Force.

On 14 October 1990, Israel openly declared that it would not abide Security Council Resolution 672 and refused to receive a delegation of the Secretary-General, which would investigate Israeli violence.

The Secretary-General was envisioned by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a " world moderator ", but the vague definition provided by the UN Charter left much room for interpretation by those who would later inhabit the position.

The Secretary-General is highly dependent upon the support of the member states of the U. N .. " The Secretary-General would fail if he did not take careful account of the concerns of Member States, but he must also uphold the values and moral authority of the United Nations, and speak and act for peace, even at the risk, from time to time, of challenging or disagreeing with those same Member States.

The numerical superiority of the Western powers combined with the one state, one vote system meant that the Secretary-General would come from one of them, and would potentially be sympathetic towards the West.

On 6 February 1994, a day after the first Markale marketplace massacre, UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali formally requested NATO to confirm that air strikes would be carried out immediately.

In January 2009, Jagland visited Estonia and met Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, where Jagland announced he would be applying for the position of Secretary-General of the Council of Europe in the summer of 2009.

Sevan, along with UN Deputy Secretary-General, Louise Frechette, rejected any such investigation, claiming that it would be too expensive to be worthwhile.

He resigned from his position at the UN due to ill health, but this was not announced because Secretary-General U Thant hoped he would be able to return soon.

On 18 June 2008, Jeyaretnam announced that the Registry of Societies had approved the formation of a new political party, the Reform Party, of which he would be the Secretary-General.

Yoshihiko Noda was formally appointed as Prime Minister on 2 September 2011 .. On August 1, 2012, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Kan would be one of the members of Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ).

PML ( Q ) Secretary-General Mushahid Hussain Syed said that, although the party had performed " far below expectations ", it accepted defeat in the election " with grace " and would become an opposition party.

* UN: Only Clear Political Resolve by Israeli, Palestinian leadership would restart peace process, Secretary-General tells Palestian Rights Committee

The Council requested the Secretary-General to report to the Council within two weeks on the implementation of the resolution, and in the event of non-compliance by Israel, the Council would reconvene to discuss further action under the United Nations Charter.

Vague in wording, it called for withdrawal of Belgian troops and authorized the Secretary-General `` to take the necessary steps to provide the ( Congolese ) Government with such military assistance as may be necessary, until, through the efforts of the Congolese Government with the technical assistance of the United Nations, the national security forces may be able, in the opinion of the Government, to meet fully their tasks.

There must be some formal announcement of the derogation and notice of the derogation, any measures adopted under it, and the ending of the derogation must be communicated to the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe

An advisory panel will evaluate all incoming applications and make recommendations to the Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority so successful applicants may be awarded with Fund assistance.

The Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights ( not to be confused with the Deputy High Commissioner, who is also an Assistant Secretary-General ) based in New York heads the New York Office of the High Commissioner.

* November 21 – The United Nations Security Council recommends Egypt's deputy prime minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali to be the next Secretary-General of the United Nations.

* December 24 – Russian SFSR President Boris Yeltsin sends a letter to UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, stating that Russia should be a successor to collapsing Soviet Union within the United Nations Organization.

In a resolution in 2005 the Security Council requested that the action plan for establishing a monitoring, reporting and compliance mechanism produced by the Secretary-General be implemented without delay.

In 1974, the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Sean MacBride said, in his Nobel Lecture, " To the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights one more might, with relevance, be added.

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 .”

He also asked the General Assembly to appropriate funds for a one-time staff buyout ; to work with him in revising budgetary and human resources rules ; to grant the Secretary-General more managerial authority and flexibility ; to strengthen the Office of Internal Oversight Services ; and " to review all mandates older than five years to see whether the activities concerned are still genuinely needed or whether the resources assigned to them can be reallocated in response to new and emerging challenges ".

Article 97 of the UN Charter states that the Secretary-General shall be the " chief administrative officer " of the Organization, but does not dictate his specific obligations.

The United Nations Charter provides for the Secretary-General to be appointed by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council.

Also contained in Article 98 is the responsibility of the Secretary-General to compile annual reports concerning the UN ’ s progress, to be presented to the General Assembly ( GA ).

The Secretary-General, along with the Secretariat, is given the prerogative to exhibit no allegiance to any state but to only the United Nations organization: decisions must be made without regard to the state of origin.