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Ads by Google      Secretary of State's Web Page The Office of the Secretary of State is an elected state office, second in line of succession behind the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor. The Secretary is the keeper of the Great Seal of the State of New Mexico, and affixes the seal to all commissions issued in the name of the Governor. When the governor and lieutenant governor are out of state, the Secretary must fill in for and perform all of the functions of the governor. http://www.sos.state.nm.us   (512 words)      Report of the Secretary-General on the Withdrawal of the Emergency Force The Secretary General was, and is, firmly of the opinion that the decision for withdrawal of the force, on the request of the host Government, rested with the Secretary General after consultation with the Advisory Committee on U.N.E.F., which is the organ established by the General Assembly for consultation regarding such matters. The Secretary General's report to the Security Council of 19 May 1967 (S-7896) described the various elements of the increasingly dangerous situation in the Near East prior to the decision of the Government of the United Arab Republic to terminate its consent for the presence of U.N.E.F. on its territory. The Secretary General, in his reports relating to this decision, made it clear that the further consent of Egypt was essential with respect to these new functions. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/UN/UNEF1.html   (9027 words)      NATO Handbook: The Secretary General The Secretary General is a senior international statesman nominated by the member governments as Chairman of the North Atlantic Council, the Defence Planning Committee, and the Nuclear Planning Group; as titular Chairman of other senior NATO committees; and as Secretary General and chief executive of NATO. The Deputy Secretary General assists the Secretary General in the exercise of his functions and replaces him in his absence. The Secretary General is responsible for the direction of the International Staff as a whole and has under his direct authority a Private Office and the Office of the Secretary General. http://www.nato.int/docu/handbook/2001/hb1003.htm   (344 words)      Interpol media release - 20/09/2005 Secretary General Noble has extensive international law enforcement expertise, including service in both the US Department of Justice (1984-1989) and Department of the Treasury (1993-1996). Interpol currently has 184 member countries and voting to confirm the appointment of the Secretary General is carried out on a one-country, one-vote basis. Ronald K. Noble was first elected to the position of Secretary General of Interpol in November 2000 at the 69th General Assembly in Rhodes, Greece. http://www.interpol.com/Public/ICPO/PressReleases/PR2005/PR200538.asp   (730 words)      Organisation of Islamic Conferences The Secretary General of the OIC met Palestinian Prime Minister Qorei and the Jordanian Minister of Religious Affairs and Awqaf Statement on the activities of the OIC Secretary General and the Islamic ministerial committee on al-Quds and Palestine at the United Nations The Secretary General having returned back to Jeddah from his visits to Jordan and Palestine. http://www.oic-oci.org/press/english/activity.htm   (3139 words)      Secretariat - Secretary General The Secretary General is appointed by the Ministerial Council for a term of three years and derives his/her authority from the collective decisions of the participating States. Prior to his appointment as OSCE Secretary General in June 2005, Ambassador Marc Perrin de Brichambaut held senior positions in the French administration as well as in international organizations. Marc Perrin de Brichambaut of France took up his post as OSCE Secretary General on 21 June 2005. http://www.osce.org/secretariat/12991.html   (364 words)      DoD News: Joint Media Availability - Secretary Rumsfeld and Secretary General Robertson This is the era of the defense minister: a former defense minister, secretary general of NATO, a former defense secretary, a defense secretary of the United States of America filling the positions of vice president of the United States and the United Nations special representative in Kosovo. I must say, I have a great deal of respect for the secretary general. Secretary, can I ask you a really parochial question on the Army black berets? http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2001/t03082001_t308sd2a.html   (2410 words)      Secretary General Kofi Annan's Reform Agenda - 1997 to Present - Global Policy Forum In his speech to the heads of state present at the Millennium+5 Summit, Secretary General Kofi Annan discussed the rhetoric surrounding the UN reform process. Article commenting on the Secretary General's July reform proposals and the negative response in the US Congress. Referring to his own 2003 speech, Annan clarified his use of the term "fork in the road," maintaining that his statement in no way referred to an "existential crisis" at the UN. http://www.globalpolicy.org/reform/initiatives/1997.htm   (2578 words)      United Nations Secretary-General - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia According to the United Nations Charter, the Secretary-General is to be appointed by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security Council. The Secretary-General is appointed by the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Security Council. As a result of international politics and mechanicisms of political compromise, there are many similarities between the process and ideals for selecting the Secretary-General and those of selecting leading figures in other international organizations, including the election of Popes in the Roman Catholic Church. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Secretary-General   (806 words)      Kofi Annan - Center of the Storm. Life Map. On the Job. Job at a Glance PBS The Security Council nominates a Secretary-General to the General Assembly which then votes to appoint the Council's choice. Before Kofi Annan was nominated as Secretary-General in 1997, there were women identified as potential candidates, including Norway's Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata and Mary Robinson, a former President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. A General Assembly resolution and other UN initiatives have been designed to to appoint more women to senior posts and improve working conditions for women within the UN. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/un/life/job.html   (1057 words)      Biographies - Secretary General Former Costa Rican President Miguel Angel Rodríguez was elected OAS Secretary General by consensus of the member states during the 34th regular session of the OAS General Assembly, held in June 2004 in Quito, Ecuador. He took the helm of the OAS on September 15, 2004, but resigned a month later. http://www.oas.org/documents/eng/biography_sgRodriguez.asp   (407 words)      NATO Who's who?: NATO SecGen Jaap de Hoop Scheffer Mr De Hoop Scheffer was elected to the House of Representatives of the States General for the Christian Democratic Alliance (CDA) in June 1986. He became the party’s spokesperson on foreign policy (as well as asylum and refugee policy and European justice matters) in the House and served on the Permanent Committees on Justice, European Affairs and Defence. He was in charge of the private office of four successive Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Van der Klaauw, Van der Stoel, Van Agt and Van den Broek) until 1986. http://www.nato.int/cv/secgen/scheffer-e.htm   (580 words)      Donald J. Johnston, OECD Secretary-General He served in the Cabinet, first as President of the Treasury Board (which manages the federal public service and controls the national budget), and then as Minister of State for Economic and Regional Development, Minister of Science and Technology, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. http://www.oecd.org/document/17/0,2340,en_2649_201185_1911377_1_1_1_1,00.html   (462 words)      Multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General- TREATY I-III--2.asp Consequently, the instrument of accession by the Government of Lithuania, including the reservation, was deposited with the Secretary General on 10 February 1997. By 4 December 1998, the date on which the period specified for the notification of objections by the Specialized Agencies concerned to the reservation made by Lithuania upon accession expired, no objection had been notified to the Secretary-General. Subsequently, in a communication received on 19 July 1990, the Government of Mongolia notified the Secretary-General of its decision to withdraw the reservation made upon accession. http://untreaty.un.org/ENGLISH/bible/englishinternetbible/partI/chapterIII/treaty2.asp   (2221 words)      Commonwealth of Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Commonwealth membership was held to have lapsed until 1997, after racialist provisions in the republican constitution were repealed and reapplication for membership made. The Commonwealth of Nations, usually known as The Commonwealth, is an association of independent sovereign states, almost all of which are former territories of the British Empire. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has used the term frequently to allege that the Commonwealth's attempts to catalyse political changes in his country is motivated by racism and colonialist attitudes and that the White Commonwealth dominates the Commonwealth of Nations as a whole. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Commonwealth   (3597 words)      IFLA appoints new Secretary General Ramachandran as the new Secretary General of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). The Secretary General is the chief executive officer, responsible for the strategic and operational direction and financial management of the Federation, within the policies established by its Council and Governing Board. The present Secretary General, Ross Shimmon, retires at the end of March 2004, on completion of a five-year contract. http://www.ifla.org/V/press/newsg03.htm   (569 words)      Kofi Annan Cleared In Corruption Probe (washingtonpost.com) UNITED NATIONS, March 29 -- A U.N.-appointed panel investigating abuse in the Iraq oil-for-food program said there is no evidence that U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan used his influence to steer a multimillion-dollar contract to a Swiss company that employed his son. It also indicated that Annan may have initially misled investigators about contacts he had with senior executives at his son's company before they won a U.N. contract. Panel Assails U.N. Chief for Not Realizing Role of His Son in Oil-for-Food Scandal http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9495-2005Mar29.html   (1042 words)      IPU Secretary General Prior to being elected Secretary General, he occupied the posts of Deputy Secretary General and Legal Adviser (1994-1998) and Assistant Secretary General (1991-1994). Anders B. Johnsson took up office as IPU Secretary General on 1 July 1998 for a four year mandate, which was renewed in 2001. The current Secretary General of the IPU is Mr. http://www.ipu.org/strct-e/sg.htm   (271 words)      Secretary General - Application Information By the constitution, the Secretary General is nominated by the Nominating Committee and elected at the General Assembly. The Secretary General furthermore ensures that correct minutes are kept from all Council Meetings and that decisions are carried out. The Secretary General is besides the President and together with the other Officers the main representative of the Association. http://www.eacts.org/doc/6899   (978 words)      Memo Seems to Link Annan to Contract of Son's Company - New York Times But the memo appears to raise questions about the secretary general's role. The secretary general's son, Kojo Annan, was employed by Cotecna Inspection Services, a Swiss contractor based in Geneva, and the nature of that relationship is among the issues being investigated by a panel appointed by the United Nations and several Congressional committees. Though it concluded in an interim report that Secretary General Annan had not influenced the awarding of the contract to the company that employed his son, it faulted him for not looking more aggressively into the company's relationship with the United Nations once questions were raised about it. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/14/international/14food.html?ex=1276401600&en=18e53694826162b1&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss   (1021 words)      Secretary General - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Milice (Vichy France's secret police) was run by a secretary general. The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) has a secretary general. The Association of Caribbean States (ACS) has a secretary-general. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary-General   (193 words)      secretary-general --  Encyclopædia Britannica In February Trygve Lie, foreign minister of Norway, was elected to serve as the first secretary-general. A dominant influence in the TGWU's formation and growth was Ernest Bevin, the union's first general secretary (1922–40). McKinley was fortunate in having as his secretary of state John Hay, one of America's greatest diplomats. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9066522?tocId=9066522   (680 words)      cda99206 Summary of the Report of the Commonwealth Secretary-General 1999, His Excellency Chief Emeka Anyaoku, 3 November. The Secretary-General went on to note that in June this year, South Africa held its second democratic elections and Thabo Mbeki succeeded Nelson Mandela as the second democratically elected President of post-apartheid South Africa. The Commonwealth at its 50th anniversary has increased its relevance to its members and to the wider international community, according to the biennial report of the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, and "it has acquired the capacity to play an increasingly effective role in addressing emerging global challenges", he said. http://www.btinternet.com/~cdauk/news992/cda99206.htm   (1864 words)      Archived - Under Secretary and General Counsel Judith A. Winston In March 2000, in addition to her General Counsel responsibilities, the President named Winston the Acting Under Secretary for the Department of Education, and she became Under Secretary in December 2000. JUDITH A. Judith A. Winston was sworn in as General Counsel to the U.S. Department of Education in June 1993. As a principal advisor to the Secretary, Winston also works with the Secretary and Deputy Secretary on strategic initiatives that help define a broad, coherent vision for achieving the National Education goals and the Secretary's priorities. http://www.ed.gov/offices/OGC/archives/winston.html   (484 words)      Infoline Commonwealth Secretary General Don McKinnon was to attempt to engage with Mugabe in a bid to persuade him to address concerns that his re-election was rigged and that Zimbabwe's opposition suffers from persecution. The Committee was disappointed to note that despite repeated efforts, including in collaboration with regional Commonwealth Heads of Government, the Commonwealth Secretary-General had been unable to establish a dialogue with the Government of Zimbabwe in fulfilment of his mandates. The Commonwealth Chairpersons' Committee on Zimbabwe, consisting of the Prime Minister of Australia, Rt Hon John Howard, the President of Nigeria, HE Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, and the President of South Africa, HE Mr Thabo Mbeki, met in Abuja, Nigeria, on 23 September 2002, to discuss the situation in Zimbabwe. http://www.samara.co.zw/infoline/sep02/24_sep.htm   (2108 words)      UN Secretary General Kofi Annan Visits Angola In return, the Secretary General told Prime Minister van Dunem and the assembled guests that he hoped all the obstacles toward unity and national reconciliation could be cleared soon and he called on UNITA to comply with its obligations under the Lusaka Protocol. In his meeting with President JosŽ Eduardo dos Santos later that same day, the Secretary General briefed the President on his meeting with Savimbi and spoke optimistically about the promises he had received from the UNITA leader, saying the meeting was a "decisive and concrete" step in the peace process. The Secretary General began his visit by attending a reception held in his honor and hosted by Angolan Prime Minister Frana van Dunem. http://www.angola.org/news/mission/april97/un.html   (2108 words)      Trade Unions : Afilal reinstated UGTM secretary general :: moroccoTimes.com The conflict within the UGTM had been simmering for years between its long-serving secretary general, Abderrazak Afilal, who was appointed in the 1960s by Allal El Fassi himself, and his potential successors in the younger generation. He added that “Kabbaj appointed himself secretary general of the union, thereby transgressing the union's statutes, which stipulate that the secretary general must be appointed by the National Conference.” The secretary general was dismissed by his opponents, on Aug. 29, from the leadership of the UGTM. http://www.moroccotimes.com/paper/article.asp?idr=2&id=9470   (903 words)      Personal Humanitarian Envoy of the Secretary-General - Mission Report Both the General Assembly and the Security Council have also stated on numerous occasions that the Fourth Geneva Convention is applicable in the Occupied Territory. General Restrictions on Movement of Personnel and Aid Supplies The number of manned checkpoints varies but generally is in the range of 120 in total, with 80 to 90 in the West Bank alone. http://domino.un.org/bertini_rpt.htm   (13698 words)      Secretary-General's Biography At the 1991 Harare Commonwealth summit, Chief Anyaoku's first as Secretary-General, Heads of Government mandated him to visit South Africa and explore with its leaders ways in which the Commonwealth could best assist the ending of apartheid. The hallmarks of Chief Anyaoku's Secretary-Generalship have been his execution of that mandate and his remoulding of the Commonwealth Secretariat so that it could undertake these new duties efficiently and effectively. In 1966, shortly after the establishment of the Commonwealth Secretariat, he was seconded to the new organisation at the request of the first Secretary-General, Arnold Smith of Canada, as Assistant Director of International Affairs, later becoming Director and, in 1975, Assistant Secretary-General. http://www.chogm99.org/who/secgenbi.htm   (1828 words)      Significant Uses of the Secretary-General The faith that the UN could keep the peace was so great in 1945, that the crusty old former Tennessee Senator, Cordell Hull, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Secretary of State, optimistically declared that henceforth all regional alliances and pacts would no longer be needed. Whether the Security Council acts on the Secretary-General& recommendation or advice, his voice from his bully pulpit could, in the hands of a fair, respected person, be of enormous influence. The Secretary General is directed by the Charter to "make an annual report to the General Assembly on the work of the organization." This certainly is not restricted to a perfunctory or statistical enumeration. http://www.unwatch.org/pbworks/usesg.html   (697 words)

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