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S-0848 · Series · 1956 - 1959
Part of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold (1953-1961)

Administrative history The Advisory Committee on the United Nations Emergency Force was established by the first emergency special session of the General Assembly on 7 November 1956 dissolved when UNEF withdrew from the Sinai and Gaza Strip in mid-June 1967. Its mandate was to monitor the situation of the Force and bring any urgent circumstances to the attention of the General Assembly. Chaired by Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. Representative countries of Brazil Canada Ceylon Colombia India Norway and Pakistan remained consistent throughout the period.

Scope and content Series consists of verbatim transcripts of meetings of the Advisory Committee on UNEF kept by the Executive Assistant to the Secretary-General Andrew W. Cordier. Arranged chronologically.

These records are a photocopied set from the Andrew Cordier Papers held at Columbia University Missions and Commissions - Middle East - Series 8 UNEF.

Conditions of access The series some of which was originally classified strictly confidential was formally declassified in 1991. All other minutes had been marked confidential.

S-0847 · Series · 1946 - 1958
Part of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold (1953-1961)

Series consists of minutes of the Secretary-Generals' private meetings with the Under-Secretaries-General 1946-1958. (Secretary-General Trygve Lie presided until 7 April 1953 Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's first meeting was 13 April 1953). Appended to this series are a few files documenting the earliest administrative issues of the United Nations in particular personnel matters (1946-1954). Some of these miscellaneous items were once part of a numbered filing system while others were the incoming correspondence of Victor Hoo Assistant Secretary-General of Trusteeship and S. Lall Assistant Secretary-General for Conference and General Services. Arrangement is in two sets the minutes followed by the miscellaneous administrative records and therein chronologically.

Operational Records
S-0846 · Series · 1953 - 1961
Part of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold (1953-1961)

Series consists of a small volume of operational files Missions and commissions UN agencies and organs Government affairs Political matters Union of South Africa and miscellaneous files. Includes a few files of correspondence which were returned to the United Nations by Brian Urquhart. Arranged in the preceding categories.