• United Nations secretary-general selection is the process of selecting the next secretary-general of the United Nations. To be selected as secretary-general...
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    A United Nations Secretary-General selection was held in 1981. Kurt Waldheim ran for an unprecedented third full term as Secretary-General, losing to Salim...
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    secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or UNSECGEN) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat...
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    A United Nations Secretary-General selection was held in October 2016 to choose the ninth secretary-general of the United Nations to succeed Ban Ki-moon...
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    A United Nations Secretary-General selection was held in 1996 at the end of Boutros Boutros-Ghali's first term. Boutros-Ghali ran unopposed for a second...
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    A United Nations Secretary-General selection was held in 1991 to replace Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, whose second term would end on 31 December 1991. Boutros...
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    A United Nations Secretary-General selection was held in 1976 at the end of Kurt Waldheim's first term. After a single symbolic veto from China to show...
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    the Secretary-General (EOSG) United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) United Nations Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) United Nations Office...
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    United Nations. 22 April 2015. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2017. "Former Secretaries-General". United Nations....
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    The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations, which recommended a partition of Mandatory Palestine at the end of...
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  • The United Nations General Assembly has granted observer status to international organizations, entities, and non-member states, to enable them to participate...
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  • the United Nations General Assembly adopted rules of procedure concerning languages that purported to apply to "all the organs of the United Nations, other...
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    All members have equal representation in the UN General Assembly. The Charter of the United Nations defines the rules for admission of member states...
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    offices for the Secretary-General, the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel, the Under-Secretary-General for Political...
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    The UN Secretary-General in World Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 7. "An Historical Overview on the Selection of United Nations Secretaries-General"...
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  • A United Nations General Assembly resolution is a decision or declaration voted on by all member states of the United Nations in the General Assembly....
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  • by nations exerting general control over the Assembly, corruption, and misappropriation of resources. A number of decisions by the United Nations are...
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    The president of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on a yearly basis...
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    The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 is a resolution adopted near the end of the 1947–1949 Palestine war. The Resolution defines principles...
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    the United Nations, including the Secretary General, can be the proper instance to decide on the continued existence or the dissolution of the United Nations...
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    The United Nations General Assembly Building is part of the headquarters of the United Nations in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan in New York...
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    António Guterres (category Secretaries-General of the United Nations)
    politician and diplomat. Since 2017, he has served as secretary-general of the United Nations, the ninth person to hold this title. A member of the Portuguese...
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    Shashi Tharoor (category Under-Secretaries-General of the United Nations)
    He was formerly an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and unsuccessfully ran for the post of Secretary-General in 2006. Founder-Chairman of...
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    Kofi Annan (category Special Representatives of the Secretary-General of the United Nations)
    2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients...
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    states in the United Nations (UN), each of which is a member of the United Nations General Assembly. The following is a list of United Nations member states...
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    Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings...
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    the initial ceasefire came into effect, and requested the United Nations Secretary-General to undertake measures toward the placement of observers to...
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    Israel-Egypt General Armistice Agreement. 4 November: Resolution 998: Called for the Secretary-General to submit a plan for a United Nations peacekeeping...
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  • members. Being elected requires a two-thirds majority vote from the United Nations General Assembly. Elected members hold their place on the council for a...
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  • The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme is a United Nations organization that contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide...
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