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The Secretariat: Retrospect and Prospect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Charles Winchmore
Charles Winchmore
Affiliation:
former Research Scholar, Royal Institute of International Affairs.
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Extract

By the Charter of the United Nations the Secretariat is established as one of the six principal organs of the United Nations. The Secretary-General is designated ‘the chief administrative officer,’ not—be it noted—of the Secretariat but of the Organization. The Secretariat comprises the Secretary-General together with the staff appointed by him. The two institutions, the Secretariat and the Secretary-General, may well be regarded as distinct but inseparable—distinct in that the Charter confers in Articles 98 and 99 certain functions and powers specifically on the Secretary-General; inseparable in that the Secretariat is a unitary institution, organized on a functional basis, the members of which are ‘subject to the authority of the Secretary-General’ and ‘responsible to him in the exercise of their functions.’

Type
II. Cooperation and Conflict
Information
International Organization , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , Summer 1965 , pp. 622 - 639
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1965

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References

1 Staff Regulation 1.2.

2 Urquhart, Brian E., ‘United Nations Peace Forces and the Changing United Nations’ in Bloomfield, Lincoln P. and others, International Military Forces: The Question of Peacekeeping in an Armed and Disarming World (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964), p. 137Google Scholar.

3 See Cordier, Andrew, ‘The Role of the Secretary-General’ in Swift, Richard N. (ed.), Annual Review of United Nations Affairs, 1960–1961 (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y: Oceana Publications, 1962), pp. 1–14Google Scholar.

4 UN Document A/2554.