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Pérez de Cuéllar, a Peruvian diplomat who a decade earlier had served as President of the UN Security Council during his time as Peruvian ambassador to the UN, was a compromise candidate. He became the first and thus far only secretary-general from the Americas. He was re-elected unanimously in 1986. [16] 6: Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1922–2016 ...
UN member state Region Sessions 1946 Paul-Henri Spaak (1889–1972) Belgium: WES First: 1947 Oswaldo Aranha (1894–1960) Brazil: LAS First special Second 1948: José Arce (1881–1968) Argentina: LAS Second special: 1948: Herbert Vere Evatt (1894–1965) Australia: COS Third: 1949 Carlos P. Romulo (1898–1985) Philippines: EAS Fourth, First ...
Guterres is the first national leader to become the U.N. Secretary-General. [50] Guterres with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe in Tokyo, Japan, 14 December 2017. The UN's role in the Haiti cholera outbreak was widely discussed and criticized [51] after the Ban Ki-moon
Trinidad and Tobago’s Ambassador Dennis Francis was elected Thursday as the next president of the U.N. General Assembly, the 193-member world body that has been at the forefront of the United ...
Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, addressing the UN General Assembly in December 1988. The General Assembly is the primary deliberative assembly of the UN. Composed of all UN member states, the assembly gathers at annual sessions at the General Assembly Hall, but emergency sessions can be summoned. [106]
The purpose of the conference was to discuss post-war settlements [10] and to reach a final agreement concerning “the UN’s structure and membership and set the date of the San Francisco organizing conference.” [11] The world leaders eventually agreed on Roosevelt's proposal to give certain members a veto power [12] so “that the ...
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accused the United States of ramping up tension and provocations, saying the Korean peninsula has never faced such risks of nuclear war as now ...
World leaders converged Tuesday at the United Nations annual climate conference with plenty of big names and powerful countries noticeably absent. ... UN officials said when Trump was first ...