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The secretaries general - The Secretary-General - system, future ...  The first secretary-general, Trygve Lie of Norway, was appointed for a five-year term on 1 .... Unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of Austria in 1971.
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Kurt Waldheim - Wikipedia  Kurt Josef Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. While he was running for president in Austria in 1985, the revelation of his .... he ran and was defeated in the 1971 Austrian presidential elections.
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Kurt Waldheim | president of Austria and secretary-general of the ...  He was the elected president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. Waldheim, 1971 ... Waldheim also took a special interest in the future of Namibia and South ... In 1986 Waldheim ran once again as the People's Party candidate for president of Austria. ... UN secretary-general Kurt Waldheim, who was elected president of Austria in...
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UN News Centre | News Focus: Appointing UN chief  Appointing UN chief - The process of selecting the UN Secretary-General. ... recommending more than one candidate, General Assembly resolution 11 (I) of 24 ... The first step is for the Council President to consult informally with the other ... December 1981, and held the post of President of Austria between 1986 and 1992.
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U Thant - Wikipedia  Thant known honorifically as U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first ... In his first term, Thant facilitated negotiations between U.S. President John F. Kennedy and ... At university, Thant, together with Nu, the future Prime Minister of Burma, studied...
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DAG HAMMARSKJLD: The UN years ...  Dag Hammarskjld was the Secretary General of the United Nations from 1953 to 1961. ... He continued his studies at the same university for two more years and ... one year as Secretary of the National Bank of Sweden, Mr. Hammarskjld was ... As Secretary-General, Mr. Hammarskjld used his good offices in a range of...
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Kurt Waldheim - Wikipedia  Kurt Josef Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. While he was running for president in Austria in 1985, the revelation of his .... Waldheim joined the Austrian diplomatic service in 1945, after finishing his...
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Waldheim elected Austrian president - Jun 08, 1986 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Waldheim elected Austrian president on Jun 08, 1986. ... After the annexation of his country by Nazi Germany in 1938, Waldheim was ... entered diplomatic service and was later appointed Austrian ambassador to France and ... of international isolation, and he chose not to run for reelection in 1992.
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Gulf Money Makes U.N. Revolving Door Spin | Foreign Policy  Nov 9, 2015 ... Danilo Turk, a former U.N. assistant secretary-general for political ... served as U.N. secretary-general until the end of 1981 and then ran for ... for Peru's presidency in 1995, more than three years after he retired from the U.N.'s top job. ... presidency in his native South Korea after his second and final term...
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Kurt Waldheim - Wikipedia  Kurt Josef Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. While he was running for president in Austria in 1985, the revelation of his ... Decades later, during the lobbying for his election as U.N. Secretary General...
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United Nations begins first ever public hearing to choose secretary ...  Apr 13, 2016 ... Candidates vying to become the next UN secretary general have ... with Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe having all held the top UN post. Russia has argued that the next UN chief should come from Eastern Europe, the only region ... UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he's now confident that...
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Kurt Waldheim | president of Austria and secretary-general of the ...  ... served two terms as the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), ... of the United Nations. Also known as. Kurt Josef Waldheim. born. December 21, 1918 ... of complicity in war crimes, but as president he was a rather isolated figure ... a fundamental debate in Austria about the country's past during World War II.
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Secretary-General of the United Nations - Wikipedia  The Secretary-General of the United Nations (UNSG or just SG) is the head of the United ... The current Secretary-General is Ban Ki-moon, who took office on 1 January 2007. His first ... He was re-elected, unopposed, to a second term on 21 June 2011. .... 10 November 1952, Norway, Western European & Others, Resigned.
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Theodor Krner (Austrian president) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Theodor Krner, Edler von Siegringen served as the fifth President of Austria, between 1951 ... Family legend has it that he was related to the poet of the same name, but these ... He resigned from his military career in 1924 as a General. ... He therefore became the first President of Austria directly elected by the people.
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Kurt Waldheim - Wikipedia  Kurt Josef Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. While he was running for president in Austria in 1985, the revelation of his ... His father was a Roman Catholic school inspector of Czech origin named...
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Chronology of the Secretary General Election 1996 - Global Policy ...  mid-1995: Secretary General Boutros Ghali floats the idea that he may be .... for the re-election of Secretary General Boutros-Ghali at the organization's expense. ..... 2 December 1996: A letter from the current Chairman of the OAU, Paul Biya of ... Ghana has submitted the name of Under Secretary General Kofi Annan who is...
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Trygve Lie | Norwegian statesman and secretary-general of the ...  After the German invasion of Norway in April 1940, he was appointed foreign minister of ... Trygve Lie becoming the first secretary-general of the United Nations, 1946. ... Lie subsequently served as county governor (fylkesmann) of Oslo and Akershus (195563) ... Your changes will be lost unless select "Submit and Leave".
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The 1971 Nobel Prize - Presentation Speech - Nobelprize.org  The 1971 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Willy Brandt. ... throughout his active political career - Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt. .... Adenauer stated, in his first Government Declaration, that West Germany belonged with the West European countries. ... Brandt's East European policy is an attempt to bury hatred and seek...
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Secretary-General of the United Nations - Wikipedia  The Secretary-General of the United Nations (UNSG or just SG) is the head of the United ... In the early 1960s, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev led an effort to abolish the ... List of Secretaries-General[edit] ..... history  timeline.
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Austrians Elect Rightist as President - NYTimes.com  May 24, 1992 ... Thomas Klestil, the chief of Austria's diplomatic corps and a former ... in Hitler's Army isolated the country diplomatically for six years. ... Published: May 25, 1992 ... His commanding officer was executed by Yugoslavia for war crimes. ... Following Mr. Waldheim's election in 1986, Israel's ambassador left...
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Austrian presidential election, 1986 - Wikipedia  Presidential elections were held in Austria on 4 May 1986 with a second round on 8 June 1986. Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, endorsed by the Austrian People's Party was elected. ... Gratz, who said he refused to "direct the Austrian foreign service in the defense of President Waldheim."...