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The Developing Role of the Secretary-General

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Elmore Jackson
Elmore Jackson
Affiliation:
Director of the American Friends Service Committee Program at the United Nations.
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On October 31, 1956, two days after the armed forces of Israel struck across the Israeli-Egytian Armistice line deep into the Sinai peninsula, and the day following the Anglo-French ultimatum to Egypt, Dag Hammarskjold, the United Nations Secretary-General, asked for the floor in the Security Council meeting. “Yesterday morning”, he said, “on the basis of the information then available— I would have used my right to call for an immediate meeting of the Security Council, had not the United States Government in the course of the night taken the initiative.

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International Organization , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , summer 1957 , pp. 431 - 445
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1957

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References

1 Security Council Official Records, Eleventh Year, 751st meeting.

2 Ibid., Fifth Year, 473rd Meeting.

3 See Schwebel, Stephen M., The Secretary-General of the United Nations; His Political Powers and Practice, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1951Google Scholar.

4 General Assembly Resolution 906 (IX).

5 Security Council Official Records, Eleventh Year, 722d Meeting.

6 Ibid.

7 Note No. 1265, page 2.

8 UN Document S/3594.

9 UN Document S/P.V. 742.

10 General Assembly Resolution 997 (ES–I).

11 Ibid., 998 (ES–I).

12 UN Document A/3289.

13 UN Document A/3302.

14 General Assembly Resolution 1000 (ES–I).

15 Ibid., 1001 (ES–I).

16 UN Document A/3383.

17 General Assembly Resolution 997 (ES–I).

18 UN Document A/3376.

19 General Assembly Resolution 1121 (XI).

20 lbid., 997 (ES–I).

21 Ibid. 1002 (ES–I).

22 UN Document A/3384.

23 General Assembly Resolution 1120 (XI).

24 Ibid., 1004 (ES–II).

25 Ibid.,1005 (ES–II).

26 Ibid., 1006 (ES–II).

27 27Ibid., 1007 (ES-II).

28 Ibid., 1127 (XI).

29 Ibid., 1128 (XI).

30 Ibid., 1129 (XI).

31 Ibid., 1130 (XI).

32 Ibid., 1131 (XI).

33 lbid., 1132 (XI).

34 General Assembly Official Records (11th session). Supplement 1A (Document A/3137/Add. 1).

35 For other suggestions see articles by James N. Hyde, “The Development of Procedures for the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes” and by Schwebel, Stephen M., “Secretary-General and the Secretariat”, Ninth Report of the Commission to Study the Organization of the Peace, American Association for the United Nations, New York 1955Google Scholar. See also the article by Jackson, Elmore, “Developing the Peaceful Settlement functions of the United Nations,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 11 1954Google Scholar.

36 Cited above, note 34.

37 Bokhari, Ahmed S., “Parliaments, Priests and Prophets,” Foreign Affairs, 04 1957 (Vol. 35, No. 3), p. 405–411CrossRefGoogle Scholar.