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The United Nations Office of Administration of Justice (OAJ) is responsible for coordinating the functions of the internal justice system of the United Nations. The OAJ is headed by an executive director, who is appointed to the position by the Secretary-General. The first executive director of the OAJ was Andrei Terekhov.
A historical discipline, archontology, focuses on the study of past and current office holders. Incumbents may also be found in the countries' articles (main article and "politics of") and the list of national leaders, recent changes in 2024 in politics and government, and past leaders on state leaders by year and colonial governors by century.
Chairman of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (Hoover Commission) 1947 Warren Austin: Republican: Ambassador to the United Nations: 1947–1953 Thomas B. McCabe: Republican: Chairman of the Federal Reserve: 1948–1951 John Sherman Cooper: Republican: U.S. Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly ...
A few countries had a national elected as president of UNGA twice: Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Hungary and Nigeria; all the other member states had a national holding this office once (not counting additional special and emergency special sessions of UNGA and also not considering that the then separate West Germany and East Germany held the ...
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Guterres is the first former head of government to become secretary-general, and the first secretary-general born after the establishment of the United Nations. He was the prime minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002. He has also been president of the Socialist International (1999–2005) and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2005 ...
In May 2012, Andhra Pradesh High Court Divisional Bench consisting of Chief Justice Madan Lokur and Justice P. V. Sanjay Kumar struck down the government of India's decision to allocate 4.5% sub-quota (within the 27% Other Backward Classes quota) for minorities. The bench held that the sub-quota was based on religion and not on any other ...
The United Nations Secretariat is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), [1] [2] The secretariat is the UN's executive arm. The secretariat has an important role in setting the agenda for the deliberative and decision-making bodies of the UN (i.e., the General Assembly, Economic and Social Council, and Security Council), and the implementation of the decision of these bodies.