Series documents the activities of the Publications Board. Records consist of correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, and annual reports. Correspondents include Secretary-General U Thant, Under-Secretary for Conference Services Jiri Nosek, and Chief Editor and Executive Assistant of the Office of the Secretary-General Leo Malania. Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Please note that box 7 is oversize folder, title Publications programs.
UN. Executive Assistant to the Secretary-General - 1946-1961: Cordier
Series consists of general memoranda and letters relating to the establishment and functions of the Library Advisory Committee, minutes of Committee Meetings 1946-1951. Series also contains documents on the donation of the J. H. Ralston Library Collection to the U.N. Library in 1953, including the transfer agreement and inventory of books.
Correspondents include Director of Library Services Karl Milam and Assistant S-G in Department of Security Council Affairs C. E. Zinchenko.
Accession Numbers are A/359 - Ralston Library Donation and A/122 - Committee Documents
UN. Executive Assistant to the Secretary-General - 1946-1961
Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs - 1959-1961
UN. Chef de Cabinet - 1961-1973
Series consists of personal working files created by James F. Engers as senior Political Affairs Officer, Department of Political and Security Council Affairs - 1946-1962, Senior Political Affairs Officer on loan to the Executive Office of the Secretary-General - 1960-1962, and Executive Officer of The Executive Office of the Secretary-General - 1963-1967. Series contains chronological files, incoming and outgoing correspondence, notes and working papers for the Department of Political and Security Council Affairs, personal documents, such as drafts of speeches, curriculum vitae, travel arrangements and immigration papers. Also documented are the activities relating to the International Cooperation Year - ICY, such as meetings of the ICY Preparatory Committee, statements by various UN and diplomatic officials, participant information, news clippings and brochures.
Correspondents include Under-Secretary for Economic and Social affairs Philippe de Seynes, Assistant Secretary-General and Director of General Services David Vaughan, Chief of NGO Section Curtis Roosevelt, Director of Personnel Sir Alexander McFarquhar, and Secretaries-General Dag Hammarskjöld and U Thant.
Series relates to public interest in issues such as peacekeeping operations - in the Middle East, in Namibia, and in Vietnam, educational services, photograph and film projects, Secretary-General's speaking engagements and appearances, the United Nations Bookshop and publications Records consist of correspondence - including with the public, newsletters, newspaper clippings, invitations, schedules, and United Nations official documents relating to the administration of the public relations function. Correspondents include Secretaries-General U Thant and Kurt Waldheim, and Deputy Chef de Cabinet and later Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs Jose Rolz-Bennett, . Arranged in numbered subject categories.
UN. Chef de Cabinet - 1961-1973
UN. Executive Assistant to Secretary-General - 1974-1982
Series consists of texts and drafts of speeches and addresses by the Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, along with briefs, reports and background information, handwritten notes and related correspondence. Also included are materials, drafts and a master copy of Building the Future Order, a book of speeches by Kurt Waldheim. Files were accumulated by principal officer of Executive Office Robert Rhodes James.
Correspondents include Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Decolonization Tang Ming-Chao, Personal Assistant to the Secretary-General Anton Prohaska, Assistant Secretary-General of Office of Public Information Genichi Akatani, Chef de Cabinet of Office of Director-General in Geneva Eric Jensen.
Accession numbers are unknown
Series documents a variety of personnel matters such as recruitment, staffing, appointments, promotion, standards of conduct; acceptance of honours, decorations, favours and gifts, staff welfare and benefits, education benefits - United Nations International School, UNIS, staff relations, and appeals. Records consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, United Nations official documents, commercial publications, newspaper clippings, and press releases. Correspondents include Secretaries-U Thant and Kurt Waldheim, Deputy Chef de Cabinet and later Under-Secretary-for Special Political Affairs Jose Rolz-Bennett, Assistant Secretary-and Director of Services D. B. Vaughan, and Under-Secretary-for Department of Economic and Social Affairs Philippe de Seynes. Arranged in numbered subject categories.
UN. Executive Assistant to the Secretary-General - 1946-1961:Cordier
Series consists of correspondence, minutes of meetings and reports, relating to the activity of the Committee of Experts on the Review of the Activities and Organization of the Secretariat - 'Committee of 8', created in order to facilitate maximum efficiency of the Secretariat. Documented are the selection of committee members, administrative matters, committee investigation of various departments and offices, meetings of the committee and its subcommittees. Also included are press releases, newspaper clippings on revamping the United Nations Secretariat, and the Secretary-General's Working Papers Nos. 1-129. Correspondents include Committee members, Director of Personnel W. A. B. Hamilton and the heads of various departments and offices.
Series documents staff-management relations - including strikes and policy on United Nations staff representation in inter-governmental organizations. Records include General Assembly reports, clear cables, and correspondence. Correspondents include the President of the Staff Committee Lowell Flanders, Assistant Secretary-General for Personnel Services James O. C. Jonah, Under-Secretary-General for Personnel Services Bradford Morse, Deputy Chief of Publishing Division of the Department of Conference Services Louis R. Vaney, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Security Council Affairs A. N. Shevchenko, and Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. Arranged alphabetically by subject.
UN. Executive Assistant to the Secretary-General - 1946-1961
UN. Chef de Cabinet - 1963-1973
Series consists of the General Assembly reports, minutes of meetings and correspondence relating to the missions of Office of the Under-Secretaries-General for Special Political Affairs - OUSecretary-GeneralSPA in Cyprus and the Middle East. Documented are budget estimates, visits by individuals and organizations, studies on the development of Water Resource in Jordan River Valley. Also included are files of Leo Malania containing minutes of meetings, accounts of border incidents, and weekly summaries of activities of Egypt-Israel mixed armistice commission.
Correspondents include Under-Secretaries-General for Special Political Affairs Roberto Guyer and Brian Urquhart, Director of OUSGSPA Fou Tchin-Liu, Director of the General Legal Division Blaine Sloan, Principal Director of the Department of Trusteeship and Information from non-self-governing territories Ralph Bunche, Chief of Staff of UNTSO Mayor-General E. L. M. Burns, Executive Assistant to the Secretary-General Andrew Cordier.
Accession numbers are unknown
UN.EOSG/OSG/S-G's Personal Representative for the Central America Peace Process - 1990-1992: de Soto
UN. OSG/Assistant -Secretary General/Office for Research and the Collection of Information - 1990-1992: de Soto
Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, press briefings, news clippings, code cables - incoming and outgoing, and United Nations documents relating to Central America, El Salvador and Central America - ONUSAL - United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador. Subject areas include El Salvador peace negotiations; implementation of peace agreement; National Civil Police; electoral observation; and staff and recruitment. Correspondents include Secretaries-General Javier Perez de Cuellar and Boutros Boutros-Ghali; Under-Secretary-General Marrack Goulding of Department of Peacekeeping Operations; Senior Officer Angela Knippenberg of OSG/Office for Research and the Collection of Information - ORCI; and Iqbal Riza/Central America - ONUSAL, San Salvador.
Accession number: 1993/52, boxes 1-4 - 1 cubic foot each.
Actual series size: 10 boxes.
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