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UN. Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs (1958-1972)
Senior Political Officer to Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs (1962-1967 - Liu)

Series consists of correspondence, news clippings, and press excerpts on various missions collected by F.T. Liu. Subjects include United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, United Nations Forces in Cyprus, Israel-Lebanon Mixed Armistice Commission, and the Special Mission to Bahrain. Correspondents include Secretary-General U Thant, Under-Secretaries-General for Special Political Affairs Ralph Bunche and Roberto Guyer, Senior Officers Brian Urquhart and F.T. Liu, and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General to Bahrain V. Winspeare Gucciardi.

Accession numbers - 79/55

Actual series size - .5 feet

UN. Office for the Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs (OUSGSPA) (1958-1972: Bunche; 1965-1970: Rolz-Bennett; 1970-1978: Guyer)

Series consist of materials documenting the progress of the Good Offices Mission, Bahrain (GOMB). Materials include correspondence, press releases, newspaper clippings, draft statements, interview reports, Iranian petitions and clear and code cables. Subjects include staff and administration; the Bahrain Delegation; Bahrain independence; summaries of world-wide press clippings relating to Bahrain; and information relating to S/RES/278 (1970). Correspondents include Secretary-General U Thant.

Accession number: 1987/179

Actual series size: 1 box

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UN. Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs (OUSGSPA) (1959-1972: Bunche; 1965-1970: Rolz-Bennett; 1970-1978: Guyer; 1974-1985: Urquhart))

Series consists of cables, correspondence, memoranda, press reports, press releases, information on television coverage, Security Council Reports and UN documents maintained by and for the use of the Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs. Subjects include material for Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's press conferences; information on Waldheim's trips to Cyprus, Cairo, Damascus, Riyadh, Beirut, Amman, Jerusalem, Cairo, Syria, Europe, China, Chile, Argentina and the West Asia Gulf States; notes for R. E. Guyer's trip to Scandinavia; airplane hijackings; El-Air, Swiss Air, BOAC and TWA 707 incidents; the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO); the International Air Transport Association (IATA); the International Federation of Airline Pilots Association (IFAPA); and S/RES/286. Correspondents include Chief Information Officer R. Stajouhar; and the above listed Under-Secretaries-General

Accession number: 1982/124

Actual series size: 4 boxes

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Series documents the Nigerian conflict, in particular a rebellion of the Ibo Tribe, and the activities of the resulting United Nations relief mission. Records include reports of the Permanent Mission of Nigeria and the United Nations Representative in Nigeria (UNREPNIG), numbered and unnumbered code cables, clear cables, letters, memoranda, press releases, and newspaper clippings. Correspondents include Under-Secretaries-General Ralph Bunche and Jose Rolz-Bennett, Secretary-General U Thant, the Secretary-General's Personal Representative Nils Gussing, non-governmental organizations, and representatives of Liberia, Equatorial Guinea, and Nigeria. Arranged alphabetically by subject.

UN. Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the Middle East (1966-1967 : Gussing)

Series consists of letters, memoranda, reports, notes for the files, newspaper clippings, selected United Nations documents and photographs (b&w, 4 6x7, 14 4x6) relating to the treatment of prisoners of war and civilians in the Israeli occupied territories, including meetings with representatives of Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Syria, visits and interviews conducted by the Secretary-General's Special Representative Nils Goran Gussing, incidents reported to the United Nations Relief Works Administration (UNRWA) amd activities of volunteer agencies. Primary correspondents include Bunche, Red Cross and UNRWA officials.

UN. Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs (1965-1971 : Rolz-Bennett)
Series consists of letters (mostly copies), clear cables, numbered code cables, Secretary-General draft reports, notes to the file, press clippings, press releases, speeches of the Secretary-General and United Nations documents. This series documents political incidents that took place between the Republic of the Ivory Coast and the Republic of Guinea in 1967, over the detention of two Guinearn diplomats in the Rpublic of the Ivory Coast. Correspondence includes: Jose Rolz-Bennett, Chef de Cabinet C.V. Narasimhan, Secretary-General U Thant, representatives of Guinea (including the President Ahmed Sekou Toure) and of the Ivory Coast, and the Special Representivates of the Secretary-General (including Pier P. Spinelli.)
Accession Numbers: Unknown

UN. Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs (OUSGSPA) (1958-1972: Bunche; 1965-1970: Rolz-Bennett; 1970-1978: Guyer; 1979-1981: Perez de Cuellar)

Series consists of code cables maintained in New York by the Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs (OUSGSPA). Cables document various office and mission activities including the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP); the United Nations Chief Coordinator (UNCC) for the peacekeeping missions in the Middle East; the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF; the United Nations Peace-Keeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP); and the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO). Subjects include bi-weekly scheduled inspections of Israeli and Egyptian areas; the Juliet Line; and the trial of Alfred Gom. Correspondents include Chief Military Officer for UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan Brig.-Gen. S. Waldenstrom; Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs B. E. Urquhart; and UN Truce Supervision Organization Chief of Staff E. A. Erskine.

Accession number: 1987/005, boxes 27-34

Actual series size: 17 boxes

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UN. Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs (OUSGSPA) (1958-1972: Bunche; 1965-1970: Rolz-Bennett; 1970-1978: Guyer; 1974-1985: Urquhart)

Series consists of press analyses, newspaper translations, press releases, special reports to the French press from the UN Office of Public Information, clear and code cables, notes on meetings and studies. Subjects include the UN administration for Gaza; African Heads of State; the "Big Four" meetings (U.S., U.S.S.R., UK, France; Ambassador Jarring's meetings (Moscow, NY, Middle East); UAR and Israeli complaints; UNCCP tabulation and evaluation of properties abandoned in Israel; the Arab refugee problem; S/Res/242; A/Res/2628 (25th); A/RES/2799 (26th); and A/RES/2949 (27th).

Accession number: 87/180

Actual series size: 5 boxes

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UN. Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs (1965-1970: Rolz-Bennett; 1970-1978: Guyer; 1974-1985: Urquhart; 1979-1981: Perez de Cuellar; 1981-1988: Cordovez; 1986-1992: Goulding)

Series consists of numbered and unnumbered clear and code cables (incoming and outgoing), incident reports, minutes, correspondence, memoranda, daily press briefings, missing persons case files, United Nations documents and maps regarding the United Nations Peace-keeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) mission to maintain law and order and promote a return to normal conditions for Turkish-Cypriots and Greek-Cypriots in Cyprus. Includes minutes of intercommunal talks between the Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot communities and meeting minutes of the Committee of Missing Persons in Cyprus. Subjects include Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot complaints regarding agreement violations; and humanitarian matters including missing persons and the resettlement of Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots. Also includes, contributing countries; finance, meetings of the Secretary-General; and local Cypriot organizations. Correspondents include President of Cyprus Spyros Kyprianou; President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Rauf Denktash; and Special Representatives of the Secretary-General in Cyprus: B. F. Osorio Tafall, Hugo J. Gobbi and Reynaldo Galindo-Pohl.

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UN. Office for Special Political Affairs (OSPA) (1970-1978: Guyer; 1979-1981: Perez de Cuellar; 1974-1985: Urquhart; 1981-1988: Cordovez; 1986-1992: Goulding)
Note: Files in this series were transferred in 1992, when the Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs became the Department for Peace-Keeping Operations. Files were transferred under the auspices of the Office for Special Political Affairs, but reflect the operations of the Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs (OUSGSPA) for the time span specified. Above names refer to the Under-Secretaries General who were in office from 1975 to 1988.

Series consists of briefings, annual reports and statements of the Secretary-General, country files, chemical weapons reports, inspections, notes on meetings, miscellaneous personnel and administrative files, information circulars, UN documents and economic surveys. Subjects include aircraft and ship incidents; Contadora; the Ford Foundation; the fortieth anniversary of the UN; observer groups in the Iran / Iraq Gulf; the Ocean Earth Corporation (OEC; the Columbia-Venezuela conflict; the League of Arab States; the Falkland Islands; Dominican hurricanes; refugees; travel standards; SPA-44 (I-84); R552; R. S/514; and R598. Correspondents include Under-Secretary-General of Special Political Affairs D. Cordovez; Under-Secretary-General for Political and Security Council Affairs U. A. Ustinov; A. Farah (UN Interim Force in Lebanon); and Deputy Director for the Centre for Human Rights K. F. Nyamekye.

Accession number: 1992/004

Actual series size: 14 boxes
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