UN Secretariat
| UN Secretariat United Nations Secretariat |
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|---|---|
 UN headquarters in New York City |
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| Organization type | Principal organ of the United Nations |
| Abbreviation | US |
| management |
UN Secretary General
António Guterres since 2017 Portugal Deputy UN Secretary General Amina J. Mohammed since 2017 Nigeria Head of the UN Executive Office Maria LR Viotti since 2017 Brazil |
| status | active |
| Founded | 1945 |
| Headquarters |
New York , USA United States
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| Upper organization |
 United Nations
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| UN Secretariat website | |
The UN Secretariat ( English United Nations Secretariat ) is the administrative body of the United Nations and in addition to its headquarters in New York three branch offices in Geneva , Nairobi and Vienna . Its most important task is to provide organizational support for the other UN organs. This includes, among other things, the organization of conferences, the writing of studies or reports and the preparation of a budget. To cope with these tasks, the United Nations employs “more than 40,000 people” from 193 member states .
The UN Secretary General (currently António Guterres ) is elected by the UN General Assembly for a term of five years on the proposal of the UN Security Council. He has a special role within the UN, because his frequent media presence makes him the “head of the United Nations” and its most important representative.
End of 1997 by Secretary-General Kofi Annan , the position of the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General ( English Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations ) created which since 1 January 2017 Amina J. Mohammed holds.
Important positions in the office of the general secretary (OSG) are the head of the executive office (English / French: Chef de Cabinet ), since January 1st 2017 this is Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti , and the assistants of the general secretary ( English Executive Assistants ).
The highest ranking German UN employee until October 2005 was the Assistant Secretary General Angela Kane , until the end of 2015 the Assistant Secretary General Franz Baumann . The German public prosecutor Detlev Mehlis took a position in the third hierarchy level of the United Nations as a special investigator with the rank of "Undersecretary General" .
Offices and departments
In addition to the New York headquarters , the United Nations maintains the following branches of the UN Secretariat:
- United Nations Office at Geneva ( English United Nations Office at Geneva , UNOG )
- United Nations Office at Vienna ( English United Nations Office at Vienna , UNOV )
- United Nations Office at Nairobi ( English United Nations Office at Nairobi , UNON )
The activities of the UN Secretariat are divided between the following departments:
| Secretary General's Office | OSG | Office of the Secretary-General |
| Office for Internal Oversight Services | OIOS | Office of Internal Oversight Services |
| Legal affairs area | OLA | Office of Legal Affairs |
| Political Affairs Department | DPA | Department of Political Affairs |
| Disarmament Office | ODA | Office for Disarmament Affairs |
| Main Department of Peacekeeping Operations | DPKO | Department of Peacekeeping Operations |
| United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | OCHA | Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs |
| Department of Economic and Social Affairs | DESA | Department of Economic and Social Affairs |
| General Assembly and Conference Management Department | DGACM | Department for General Assembly and Conference Management |
| Main Press and Information Department | DPI | Department of Public Information |
| Main Department of Management | DM | Department of Management |
| Information and communication technology office | OICT | Office of Information and Communications Technology |
| Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries , Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing Countries | OHRLLS | Office of the High Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States |
| Office of the United Nations Security Coordinator | UNSECOORD | Office of the United Nations Security Coordinator |
| United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime | UNODC | United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime |
The departments in the UN Secretariat from Under Secretary General ( English Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations , USG ) out.
Secretaries General of the UN (chronological)
(→ Compare the list of general secretaries and vice-general secretaries )
- 1946–1952: Trygve Lie (Norway)
- 1953–1961: Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden)
- 1961–1971: Sithu U Thant (Burma)
- 1972–1981: Kurt Waldheim (Austria)
- 1982–1991: Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (Peru)
- 1992–1996: Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egypt)
- 1997-2006: Kofi Annan (Ghana)
- 2007-2016: Ban Ki-moon (Republic of Korea)
- since January 1, 2017: António Guterres (Portugal)
References
- ↑ Information from: German Society for the United Nations Link
Web links
| Main organs |
General Assembly • Security Council • Economic and Social Council • UN Secretariat • Secretary • International Court of Justice • International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea • High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) • High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) |
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| Programs |
FAO • ICAO • IFAD • ILO • IMO • IOM • ITC • ITU • UNAIDS • SCSL (RSCSL) • UNCTAD • UNCITRAL • UNCDF • UNDAP • UNDG • UNDP • UNDGC • DPKO • UNEP • UNESCO • UNFIP • UNFPA • UN-HABITAT • UNHRC • UNICEF • UNICRI • UNIDIR • UNITAR • UN-O • OCHA • UNODC • UNOPS • UNOSAT • UNRISD • UNRWA • UNU • UNV • UN Women • UNWTO • UPU • WFP • WHO • WIPO • WMO |
