In my first five years as Secretary-General, I have nearly doubled the number of women in senior UN positions, at the rank of Assistant Secretary-General and Under-Secretary-General.
Wolin, an attorney, previously served as Deputy General Counsel at Treasury under Secretary Robert Rubin and as General Counsel at Treasury under Secretary Lawrence Summers.
The UN's Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, sounded a note of caution on the prospect of ending the arms embargo.
The UN's Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Kanzo Oshima, says he is still waiting for a response after offering to send UN staff back into Afghanistan if the Taleban will guarantee their safety.
"It does seem to represent a recognition on the part of authorities of the need to introduce some reforms in these areas in order to increase production, and to produce some incentive mechanisms, " said Kenzo Oshima, UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs.
Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Herve Ladsous, who spoke as deaths mounted across the country.
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The videoconference will be opened by Kiyo Akasaka, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information.
The current United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Field Support is an Argentine woman by the name of Susana Malcorra.
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The United Nations announced Monday that Valerie Amos, its under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, will visit Damascus and Beirut, Lebanon, starting Tuesday.
"All the parties need to take further steps to ensure a cessation of violence in all its forms, " said Herve Ladsous, the U.N. under-secretary-general for peacekeeping, on Tuesday.
Earlier this month, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information Kiyo Akasaka enlisted advertisers to join efforts to eliminate violence against women, calling on the industry to help defy destructive gender stereotypes.
The UN's Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, has said she has been given permission to visit Syria on Wednesday and that she would call for "unhindered access for humanitarian aid".
Following nomination by the Secretary-General, the General Assembly, on 25 August 2010, elected Joan Clos of Spain as Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) at the level of Under-Secretary-General.
After days of trying to obtain permission from Syrian authorities to travel to the country, Valerie Amos, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, will arrive Wednesday in Damascus, she said.
More than 170 supply trucks crossed into Gaza on Monday, less than a third of the daily number that crossed in 2005, said John Holmes, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator.
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The objective of the interagency meeting, chaired by Juan Clos, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UNHABITAT, and attended by senior representatives of DESA, FAO, ILO, IMF, UNDP, UNICEF, UNWOMEN, WB, and WHO amongst others, was to forge stronger partnership among UN agencies in a concerted effort to address shared urban development challenges.
Bronfman began reading a daily portion of the Talmud, a book of Jewish tradition, under the tutoring of WJC Secretary General Israel Singer.
Under the leadership of Secretary-General Ban, the UN has opened its doors through unique collaborations such as its Creative Community Outreach Initiative, where key film industry players in Hollywood, New York, and other creative centers around the world are helping to tell the UN story.
This has traditionally been a feeble body of pen-pushers under a mild-mannered secretary-general, usually a senior regional official rewarded with the post as the crowning boondoggle in a career of not rocking the boat.
The Summit was organized by ITU under the patronage of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to ensure that social and economic development, which is increasingly driven by ICTs, will result in a more just, prosperous and equitable world.
We learned this weekend that a Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzon, is preparing to prosecute six Americans who worked as senior legal and policy advisors to President George W. Bush - including Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith.
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Last Friday, the Security Council voted unanimously to restart the oil-for-food programme under the control of the UN's secretary-general, Kofi Annan, for 45 days.
Negotiations between representatives of the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, and his aggrieved challenger, Raila Odinga, continued under the aegis of Kofi Annan, a former UN secretary-general.
For the past few months, diplomacy has focused on a plan, overseen by Kofi Annan, a former UN secretary-general, to negotiate an effective ceasefire under a team of monitors and to set up an interim unity government.
But under pressure from Russia, Ban Ki-moon, its secretary-general, has not formally done so.
Mr Juppe called on both Mr Cope, the party's secretary general since 2010 and Mr Fillon, prime minister under Mr Sarkozy, to "accept the decision of the electoral commission when it is delivered".
With few people accepting voluntary redundancy, more and more middle managers are being hounded into quitting most often, says Kiyotsugu Shitara, general secretary of the Tokyo Managers' Union, under the careful direction of a company's personnel department.
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Lord Robertson, a former Nato secretary general, has called Germany "irresponsible" for wanting to remain under America's nuclear umbrella while exporting the obligation of maintaining it to other European states.
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