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S-0173 · Series · 1958 - 1976
Part of United Nations Office for Special Political Affairs (1955-1991)

UN. Executive Assistant to the SG (1946-1961)
UN. Chef de Cabinet (1961-1973)
UN. Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs (1956-1992)

Series consists of letters relating to the UN Truce Supervision Operation's (UNTSO) assignment and administration of military observers (UNMO) of each participating country (or Military Contingent) such as assignment to UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) and Tours of Duty. Series also contains pouch lists with correspondence listed by date and country. Correspondence is between Andrew Cordier of the Secretary-general's office, Ralph Bunche, Roberto Guyer, F.T. Liu, and Brian Urquhart of the Office for Special Political Affairs and with top UNTSO echelon staff such as Chiefs of Staff E.L.M. Burns, William Riley, Carl C. von Horn, and Bengt Liljestrand, and also with the permanent representatives of the countries providing observers for UNSTO.

Accession Numbers: Accession 79/132; A/780; 79/55; A/588

Former series location: DAG-1/2.1.4, boxes 24-26

keyword: Middle East

S-0552 · Series · 1951 - 1976
Part of United Nations Registry Section (1946-1979)

Administrative history: The Registry Section was established ca. 1954; the system was discontinued in 1979, after the decision to move to a decentralized records management system. Function was the centralization of Secretariat record-keeping in one large classification system. Predecessor was Central Registry Section. Succeeded by decentralized record-keeping by departments in consultation with the Archives Section's records management programme.

Series consists of the Registry Section's files relating to UNCTAD and UNIDO. Arranged numerically according to filing plan, and therein chronologically.

S-0667 · Series · 1967 - 1976
Part of United Nations Middle East Mission (UNMEM) (1968-1973)

Gunnar Jarring's Mission to the Middle East

Series consists - correspondence, incoming and outgoing cables, telegrams, memoranda, handwritten documents, draft documents, working papers, reports, resolutions, proposals, press releases, press clippings, news excerpts, information circulars, booklets, medical reports, bank deposit slips, requisition slips, sales receipts, vouchers, itineraries, travel authorization forms, routing slips, greeting cards, postcards, invitations, and calendars. Subjects include but are not limited to the following: administration; staff; travel; finance; -ficial appointments; requests for employment; personal appeals from the general public; Palestinian refugees; curfews in Palestine region; news and magazine interviews; and the Palestinian Democratic Front. Correspondents include Ambassador Gunnar Jarring, Special Representative - Secretary-General for the Middle East; Ralph Bunche, U.N. Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs; Ian E. Berendsen, Principal Political Advisor, UNMEM; and Lawrence Michelmore, U.N. Commissioner-General.

Subject Files

Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, incoming and outgoing cables, notes, handwritten documents, notarized documents, addenda, annexes, amendments, extracts, abstracts, questionnaires, replies to questionnaires, witness statements, letters of intent, speeches, High Court notices, proposals, preliminary proposals, agreements, aircraft charter agreements, charter contracts, uniform time charts, invitations, contracts, registers, statements, supply and purchase orders, invoices, receipts, balance sheets, loan forms, repair forms, administrative instructions, administrative circulars, certificates, reports, daily performance records, weekly review summaries, weekly air operations summaries, project summaries, agendas, records of meetings, verbatim records of meetings, meeting notes, minutes of meetings, press notes, press clippings, press releases, draft press releases, weeky news summaries, circulars, brochures, catalogues, resumes, biographical notes, case files, photographs, diagrams, survey maps, itineraries, lists, logs, statistical charts, evacuation plans, and business cards.

Subjects include but are not limited to the following: administrative matters; personnel; organizational structure; budgets; equipment and supplies; logistics; procedures; vehicle assignments; transfer of responsibilities; security matters; crimes committed by staff; phasing out and closing down of field stations; relief and rehabilitation; economic aid; housing needs; textile supplies; agriculture; drought; food stuff distribution; food storage management; road reconstruction; loan of vehicles; vehicular accidents; bridge construction; vessels; vessel accidents; salvage operations; clearance of Chalna Port; shipbuilding and repairs; marine insurance; customs; airlift relief operations; aircraft usage; aircraft accidents and breakdowns; legal matters; cabinet of Bangladesh government; Bangladesh admission to United Nations; grant agreement between United States of America and Pakistan; Inter-Ministerial Working Group; Central Transport Coordination Committee; SECCO; and General Assembly resolutions.

Correspondents include: Kurt Waldheim, UN Secretary-General; U. Thant, UN Secretary-General; William McCaw, Acting Representative of UN Secretary-General; Bahgat El-Tawil, Representative of UN Secretary-General in East Pakistan; G. Fulcheri, Chief of Operations, UNEPRO/UNROD; Jacques Schoellkopf, Chief Administrative Officer, UNEPRO; Stephen R. Tripp, Senior Advisor, UNEPRO; Carl F. Pfeifer, Transport and Logistics Director, UNEPRO; Francis Lacoste, Special Representative of UN Secretary-General, Chief of Mission, UNROB; Marshall Yuk, Finance Officer, UNROB; Victor Umbricht, Chief of Mission, UNROD; Pierre L. Sales, Director, UNROD; Peter Wheeler, Senior Food Advisor, UNROD; Bernard Oury, Senior Economics Advisor, UNROD, Dacca; and G.E. Morley, Food Conservation Officer, UNROD.

S-0206 · Series · 1946 - 1976
Part of United Nations Office for Special Political Affairs (1955-1991)

UN. Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs

Series consists of plans, reports, minutes, and memos. Subjects include the UN General Assembly, budget & finance, receptions for visiting dignitaries, and staff matters. Also included are humanitarian issues such as the situation of Jewish communities in the Soviet Union and Arab countries and prisoners of war, mostly in the Middle East. Correspondents include Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, Under-Secretaries-General for Special Political Affairs Ralph J. Bunche, Brian Urquhart, and the International Red Cross.

Actual series size: 1.5 feet.

S-0227 · Series · 1964 - 1976
Part of United Nations Office for Special Political Affairs (1955-1991)

UN. Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs (1958-1984)

Series consists of incoming and outgoing clear cables and cabled reports and situation reports on UNFICYP operations. Subjects include force and status of UNFICYP, local incidents and engagements, and economic conditions. Correspondents include Under-Secretaries-General for Special Political Affairs Ralph Bunche, Jose Rolz-Bennett, Roberto Guyer, and Brian Urquhart, Special Representative A. Carlos Bernardes and Mission Commander K.S. Thimayya.

Accession numbers: A/754; 77/207

S-0668 · Series · 1949 - 1975
Part of United Nations Middle East Mission (UNMEM) (1968-1973)

Series consists of correspondence, cables, memoranda, handwritten documents, draft working papers, working papers, draft notes, reports, discussion papers, study papers, statements, meeting notes, journal articles, press releases, bulletins, press clippings, maps, and business cards.

Subjects include but are not limited to the following: staffing of UNMEM; Ambassador Jarring's personal and official travel; diplomatic immunity; Military Working Group on Israeli-Syrian Disengagement; Algerian and Palestinian detainees in Israel; Arab refugees; development fund in Gaza area; plan for Old City-Jerusalem; aircraft hijacking incidents; freedom of passage through Straits of Tiran and Gulf of Aqaba; Israeli withdrawal and occupation by U.N. forces of Sharen-el-Sheikh area; legal and economic effects of Suez Canal closure; Israel's armistice agreement with Arab states; and recommendation by the World Council of Churches.

Correspondents include U.Thant, U.N. Secretary-General; Ralph Bunche, U.N. Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs; Ambassador Gunnar Jarring, Special Representative of Secretary-General for the Middle East; Ian E. Berendsen, Principal Political Advisor, UNMEM; Jose Rolz-Bennett, Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs; Constantin A. Stavropoulos, Legal Counsel; Joseph E Johnson, President Emeritus, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace/Convener of the Commission on the Middle East; Professor Roger Fisher, Harvard Law School; Eugene C. Blake, General-Secretary, World Council of Churches.