United Nations Secretary-General

The United Nations Secretary-General is the head of the Secretariat, one of the principal divisions of the United Nations. According to the United Nations Charter, the Secretary-General is to be appointed by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security Council. It is widely considered the most influential role in the United Nations.

Secretaries-General

:Sir Gladwyn Jebb (United Kingdom), acting, 1945–1946.

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Sir Gladwyn Jebb - United Kingdom - Acting - 1945 - 1946

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• Trygve Lie (Norway), February 1946 to his resignation in November 1952.
• Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden), April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), September 1961.
• U Thant (Burma), November 1961 – December 1971.
• Kurt Waldheim (Austria) 1972 to the Chinese veto of his third term in 1981.
• Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (Peru) 1982 – 1991
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egypt), January 1992 to the American veto of his second term in December 1996.
• Kofi Annan (Ghana), January 1997 to present.