United Nations Secretaries-General


	United Nations Secretaries-General
hitchhiker08
6-3-2008 2:23 PM
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united nations, general assembly, security council, secretary general
hitchhiker08 says:
Wonder why all Secretaries-General are male?
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e4f6c33e-da3b-4e1b-8ce6-d0428561f413/33C32ACF-22CF-418B-B4F8-1040A2242D99/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.answers.com/topic/united-nations-secretary-general" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/united-nations-secretary-general" style="font-size: 11px;">www.answers.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.answers.com/topic/united-nations-secretary-general"><DIV class="DsAndEntryName">
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<SPAN class="hw">United Nations Secretaries-General</SPAN>
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.answers.com/topic/united-nations-secretary-general"><DIV id="ency_0"><TABLE border="1"><CAPTION class="hw">United Nations Secretaries-General</CAPTION><THEAD><TR><TH>Secretary-General</TH><TH>Nationality</TH><TH>Dates in Office</TH></TR></THEAD><TBODY><TR><TD>Trygve Halvdan <A  class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/trygve-lie">Lie</A></TD><TD>Norwegian</TD><TD>1946–53</TD></TR><TR><TD>Dag <A  class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/dag-hammarskj-ld">Hammarskjöld</A></TD><TD>Swedish</TD><TD>1953–61</TD></TR><TR><TD>U <A  class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/u-thant">Thant</A></TD><TD>Burmese</TD><TD>1962–71</TD></TR><TR><TD>Kurt <A  class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/kurt-waldheim">Waldheim</A></TD><TD>Austrian</TD><TD>1972–81</TD></TR><TR><TD>Javier <A  class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/javier-p-rez-de-cu-llar">Pérez de Cuéllar</A></TD><TD>Peruvian</TD><TD>1982–91</TD></TR><TR><TD>Boutros <A  class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/boutros-boutros-ghali">Boutros-Ghali</A></TD><TD>Egyptian</TD><TD>1992–96</TD></TR><TR><TD>Kofi <A  class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/kofi-annan">Annan</A></TD><TD>Ghanaian</TD><TD>1997–2006</TD></TR><TR><TD><A  class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/ban-ki-moon">Ban Ki-Moon</A></TD><TD>South Korean</TD><TD>2007–</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_Nations_Secretary-General_selection%2C_2006&oldid=191122717" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_Nations_Secretary-General_selection%2C_2006&oldid=191122717" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_Nations_Secretary-General_selection%2C_2006&oldid=191122717"><H1 class="firstHeading">United Nations Secretary-General selection, 2006</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_Nations_Secretary-General_selection%2C_2006&oldid=191122717"><DIV class="thumbinner"><A title="Ban Ki-moon was elected Secretary-General in October 2006." class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bankimoon.jpg"><IMG width="180" height="225" border="0" class="thumbimage" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Bankimoon.jpg/180px-Bankimoon.jpg" alt="Ban Ki-moon was elected Secretary-General in October 2006." /></A>
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<A title="Ban Ki-moon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon">Ban Ki-moon</A> was elected <A title="United Nations Secretary-General" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Secretary-General">Secretary-General</A> in October 2006.</DIV>
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_Nations_Secretary-General_selection%2C_2006&oldid=191122717"><P>An election was held in 2006 to succeed <A title="Kofi Annan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofi_Annan">Kofi Annan</A>, whose second term as <A title="United Nations Secretary-General" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Secretary-General">Secretary-General</A> of the <A title="United Nations" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations">United Nations</A> expired on <A title="December 31" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_31">31 December</A> <A title="2006" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006">2006</A>. Seven candidates were officially nominated for the position.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_Nations_Secretary-General_selection%2C_2006&oldid=191122717"><P>When the race to succeed Annan began in 2006, it was widely expected the successful candidate would be Asian, since a number of Security Council members (including <A title="People's Republic of China" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China">China</A>, which has a veto) indicated they would only support an Asian candidate.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><A title="" href="#cite_note-0">[1]</A></SUP></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/33C32ACF-22CF-418B-B4F8-1040A2242D99/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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