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Supports the other UN bodies administratively (for example, in the organization of conferences, the writing of reports and studies and the preparation of the budget); Its chairperson—the UN Secretary-General —is elected by the General Assembly for a five-year mandate and is the UN's foremost representative.
The United Nations Office at Geneva (Switzerland) is the second biggest UN centre, after the United Nations Headquarters (New York City).. The United Nations System consists of the United Nations' six principal bodies (the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Trusteeship Council, International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the United Nations Secretariat), [1 ...
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.
The United Nations Official Document System (ODS), commonly known as the Official Document System, is a multilingual online database of the United Nations documents consisting electronic publications from 1993 to the present century available in official languages of the UN, such as Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish in addition to German language. [1]
Chapter III sets up a more complex organizational structure than Article 2 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, which simply provided, "The action of the League under this Covenant shall be effected through the instrumentality of an Assembly and of a Council, with a permanent Secretariat," establishing a three-organ system as opposed to a ...
The Charter of the United Nations (UN) is the foundational treaty of the United Nations. [1] It establishes the purposes, governing structure, and overall framework of the UN system , including its six principal organs : the Secretariat , the General Assembly , the Security Council , the Economic and Social Council , the International Court of ...
The organs of the United Nations, as set out in Chapter III, Article 7 of the United Nations Charter. For specialized agencies and subsidiary organs created by one or more organs of the United Nations, see Category:Organizations established by the United Nations.
Article 22 of the United Nations Charter permits the General Assembly to "establish such subsidiary organs as it deems necessary for the performance of its functions". See official list of such organs .