United Nations

26 Jun 1945               UN charter signed

24 Oct 1945               Charter comes into force

26 Dec 1991               Former U.S.S.R membership is inherited by Russian Federation

Headquarters: New York, United States.

Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish.

Anthem: "Hymn of the United Nations".

Day: United Nations Day, 24 October (1945).

Secretaries-General

24 Oct 1945 - 31 Jan 1946 Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb,

                           Baron Gladwyn ......................... 1900-1946 (Great Britain)

01 Feb 1946 - 10 Nov 1952 Trygve Halbdan Lie ..................... 1896-1968 (Norway)

10 Apr 1953 - 18 Sep 1961 Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskold ...... 1905-1961 (Sweden)

01 Dec 1961 - 31 Dec 1971 U Thant ................................ 1909-1974 (Burma)

01 Jan 1972 - 31 Dec 1981 Kurt Josef Waldheim .................... 1918-2007 (Austria)

01 Jan 1982 - 31 Dec 1991 Javier Pérez de Cuellar y de la Guellar  1920-2020 (Peru)

01 Jan 1992 - 31 Dec 1996 Boutros Boutros-Ghali .................. 1922-2016 (Egypt)

01 Jan 1997 - 31 Dec 2006 Kofi Atta Annan ........................ 1938-2018 (Ghana)

01 Jan 2007 - 31 Dec 2016 Ban Ki-moon ............................ 1944-     (South Korea)

01 Jan 2017 -             António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres .... 1949-     (Portugal)

Presidents of the General Assembly

10 Jan 1946 - 16 Sep 1947 Paul-Henri Spaak ....................... 1899-1972 (Belgium)

16 Sep 1947 - 16 Apr 1948 Oswaldo Euclides de Sousa Aranha ....... 1894-1960 (Brazil)

16 Apr 1948 - 21 Sep 1948 José Arce .............................. 1881-1968 (Argentina)

21 Sep 1948 - 20 Sep 1949 Herbert Vere Evatt ..................... 1894-1965 (Australia)

20 Sep 1949 - 19 Sep 1950 Carlos Peña Romulo ..................... 1899-1985 (Philippines)

19 Sep 1950 - 06 Nov 1951 Nasrollah Entezam ...................... 1900-1980 (Iran)

06 Nov 1951 - 14 Oct 1952 Luis Padilla Nervo ..................... 1894-1985 (Mexico)

14 Oct 1952 - 15 Sep 1953 Lester B. Pearson ...................... 1897-1972 (Canada)

15 Sep 1953 - 21 Sep 1954 Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit .................. 1900-1990 (India)

21 Sep 1954 - 20 Sep 1955 Eelco Nicolaas van Kleffens ............ 1894-1983 (Netherlands)

20 Sep 1955 - 31 Oct 1956 José Guillermo Maza Fernandez .......... 1889-1964 (Chile)

01 Nov      - 12 Nov 1956 Rudecindo Ortega Masson ................ 1899-1962 (Chile)

12 Nov 1956 - 17 Sep 1957 Prince Wan Waithayakon ................. 1891-1976 (Thailand)

17 Sep 1957 - 16 Sep 1958 Sir Leslie Munro ....................... 1901-1974 (New Zealand)

16 Sep 1958 - 15 Sep 1959 Charles Habib Malik .................... 1906-1987 (Lebanon)

15 Sep 1959 - 20 Sep 1960 Víctor Andrés Belaúnde Diez Canseco .... 1883-1966 (Peru)

20 Sep 1960 - 20 Sep 1961 Frederick Henry Boland ................. 1904-1985 (Ireland)

20 Sep 1961 - 18 Sep 1962 Mongi Slim ............................. 1908-1969 (Tunisia)

18 Sep 1962 - 17 Sep 1963 Sir Mohammad Zafrulla Khan ............. 1893-1985 (Pakistan)

17 Sep 1963 - 30 Nov 1964 Carlos Sosa Rodríguez .................. 1912-1997 (Venezuela)

01 Dec 1964 - 21 Sep 1965 Alex Quaison-Sackey .................... 1924-1992 (Ghana)

21 Sep 1965 - 20 Sep 1966 Amintore Fanfani ....................... 1908-1999 (Italy)

20 Sep 1966 - 19 Sep 1967 Abdul Rahman Pazhwak ................... 1919-1995 (Afghanistan)

19 Sep 1967 - 24 Sep 1968 Corneliu Manescu ....................... 1916-2000 (Romania)

24 Sep 1968 - 17 Apr 1969 Emilio Arenales Catalán ................ 1922-1969 (Guatemala)

16 Sep 1969 - 15 Sep 1970 Angie Brooks-Randoplh .................. 1928-2007 (Liberia)

15 Sep 1970 - 21 Sep 1971 Edvard Hambro .......................... 1911-1977 (Norway)

21 Sep 1971 - 19 Sep 1972 Adam Malik ............................. 1917-1984 (Indonesia)

19 Sep 1972 - 18 Sep 1973 Stanislaw Trepczynski .................. 1924-2002 (Poland)

18 Sep 1973 - 17 Sep 1974 Leopoldo Benites Vinueza ............... 1905-1996 (Ecuador)

17 Sep 1974 - 16 Sep 1975 Abdelaziz Bouteflika ................... 1937-2021 (Algeria

16 Sep 1975 - 21 Sep 1976 Gaston Thorn ........................... 1928-2007 (Luxembourg)

21 Sep 1976 - 20 Sep 1977 Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe ........... 1913-1980 (Sri Lanka) 

20 Sep 1977 - 19 Sep 1978 Lazar Mojsov ........................... 1920-2011 (Yugoslavia)

19 Sep 1978 - 18 Sep 1979 Indalecio Liévano Aguirre .............. 1917-1982 (Colombia)

18 Sep 1979 - 16 Sep 1980 Salim Ahmed Salim ...................... 1942-     (Tanzania)

16 Sep 1980 - 15 Sep 1981 Rüdiger von Wechmar .................... 1923-2007 (West Germany)

15 Sep 1981 - 21 Sep 1982 Ismat T. Kittani ....................... 1929-2001 (Iraq)

21 Sep 1982 - 20 Sep 1983 Imre Hollai ............................ 1925-2017 (Hungary)

20 Sep 1983 - 18 Sep 1984 Jorge Enrique Illueca Sibauste ......... 1918-2012 (Panama)

18 Sep 1984 - 17 Sep 1985 Paul J.F. Lusaka ....................... 1925-1996 (Zambia)

17 Sep 1985 - 16 Sep 1986 Jaime de Piniés ........................ 1917-2003 (Spain)

16 Sep 1986 - 15 Sep 1987 Humayun Rasheed Chowdhury .............. 1928-2001 (Bangladesh)

15 Sep 1987 - 20 Sep 1988 Peter Florin ........................... 1921-2014 (G.D.R)

20 Sep 1988 - 19 Sep 1989 Dante Maria Caputo ..................... 1933-2018 (Argentina)

19 Sep 1989 - 18 Sep 1990 Joseph Nanven Garba .................... 1943-2002 (Nigeria)

18 Sep 1990 - 17 Sep 1991 Guido de Marco ......................... 1931-2010 (Malta)

17 Sep 1991 - 15 Sep 1992 Samir S. Shihabi ....................... 1925-2010 (Saudi Arabia)

15 Sep 1992 - 21 Sep 1993 Stoyan Dimitrov Ganev .................. 1955-2013 (Bulgaria)

21 Sep 1993 - 20 Sep 1994 Samuel R. Insanally .................... 1936-     (Guyana)

20 Sep 1994 - 19 Sep 1995 Amara Essy ............................. 1944-     (Côte d'Ivoire)

19 Sep 1995 - 17 Sep 1996 Diogo Freitas do Amaral ................ 1941-2019 (Portugal)

17 Sep 1996 - 16 Sep 1997 Razali Ismail .......................... 1939-     (Malaysia)

16 Sep 1997 - 09 Sep 1998 Hennadii Yosypovych Udovenko ........... 1931-2013 (Ukraine)

09 Sep 1998 - 14 Sep 1999 Didier Opertti Badan ................... 1937-     (Uruguay)

14 Sep 1999 - 05 Sep 2000 Theo-Ben Gurirab ....................... 1938-2018 (Namibia)

05 Sep 2000 - 12 Sep 2001 Harri Holkeri .......................... 1937-2011 (Finland)

12 Sep 2001 - 10 Sep 2002 Han Seung Soo .......................... 1936-     (South Korea)

10 Sep 2002 - 16 Sep 2003 Jan Kavan .............................. 1946-     (Czechia)

16 Sep 2003 - 14 Sep 2004 Julian Hunte ........................... 1940-     (Saint Lucia)

14 Sep 2004 - 13 Sep 2005 Jean Ping .............................. 1942-     (Gabon)

13 Sep 2005 - 12 Sep 2006 Jan Eliasson ........................... 1940-     (Sweden)

12 Sep 2006 - 18 Sep 2007 Haya Rashed Al Khalifah ................ 1952-     (Bahrain)

18 Sep 2007 - 16 Sep 2008 Srgjan Kerim ........................... 1948-     (F.Y.R.O.M)

16 Sep 2008 - 15 Sep 2009 Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann .............. 1933-2017 (Nicaragua)

15 Sep 2009 - 14 Sep 2010 Ali Triki .............................. 1938-2015 (Libya)

14 Sep 2010 - 14 Sep 2011 Joseph Deiss ........................... 1946-     (Switzerland)

14 Sep 2011 - 18 Sep 2012 Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser ............. 1952-     (Qatar)

18 Sep 2012 - 17 Sep 2013 Vuk Jeremić ............................ 1975-     (Serbia)

17 Sep 2013 - 16 Sep 2014 Dr. John William Ashe .................. 1954-2016 (Antigua and Barbuda)

16 Sep 2014 - 15 Sep 2015 Sam Kahamba Kutesa ..................... 1949-     (Uganda)

15 Sep 2015 - 13 Sep 2016 Mogens Lykketoft ....................... 1946-     (Denmark)

13 Sep 2016 - 12 Sep 2017 Peter Thomson .......................... 1948-     (Fiji)

12 Sep 2017 - 18 Sep 2018 Miroslav Lajčák ........................ 1963-     (Slovakia)

18 Sep 2018 - 16 Sep 2019 María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés ......... 1964-     (Ecuador)

16 Sep 2019 - 15 Sep 2020 Tijjani Muhammed-Bande ................. 1957-     (Nigeria)

15 Sep 2020 - 14 Sep 2021 Volkan Bozkır .......................... 1950-     (Turkey)

14 Sep 2021 - 14 Sep 2022 Abdulla Shahid ......................... 1962-     (Maldives)

15 Sep 2022 - 05 Sep 2023 Csaba Kőrösi ........................... 1958-     (Hungary)

05 Sep 2023 - 10 Sep 2024 Dennis Francis ......................... 1956-     (Trinadad and Tobago)

10 Sep 2024 -             Philemon Yang .......................... 1947-     (Cameroon)

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United Nations Commissioner for Refugees

01 Jan 1951 - 08 Jul 1956 Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhard ......... 1901-1956 (Netherlands)

08 Jul      - 31 Dec 1956 James M. Read .......................... 1908-1985 (United States)

                          (acting)

01 Jan 1957 - 31 Dec 1960 August Rudolf Lindt .................... 1905-2000 (Switzerland)

01 Jan 1961 - 31 Dec 1965 Félix Schnyder ......................... 1910-1992 (Switzerland)

01 Jan 1966 - 31 Dec 1977 Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan .............. 1933-2003 (Iran)

01 Jan 1978 - 31 Dec 1985 Poul Hartling .......................... 1914-2000 (Denmark)

01 Jan 1986 - 31 Oct 1989 Jean-Pierre Hocké ...................... 1938-     (Switzerland)

01 Nov      - 31 Dec 1989 Gerald Hinterling ...................... 1928-2013 (Austria)

                          (acting)

01 Jan      - 02 Nov 1990 Thorvald Stoltenberg ................... 1931-2018 (Norway)

02 Nov 1990 - 18 Feb 1991 Douglas Stafford (United States)

                          (acting)

18 Feb 1991 - 31 Dec 2000 Sadako Ogata ........................... 1927-2019 (Japan)

01 Jan 2001 - 20 Feb 2005 Rudolphus Franciscus Marie Lubber ...... 1937-2018 (Netherlands)

20 Feb      - 15 Jun 2005 Wendy Jean Chamberlain ................. 1948-     (United Stes)

                          (acting)

15 Jun 2005 - 31 Dec 2015 António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres .... 1949-     (Portugal)

01 Jan 2016 -             Filippo Grandi ......................... 1957-     (Italy)

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United Nations High Commissioners for Human Rights

05 Apr 1994 - 15 Mar 1997 José Julio Ayala Lasso ................. 1932-     (Ecuador)

15 Mar      - 12 Sep 1997 Ralph Zacklin .......................... 1937-     (U.K)

                          (interim)

12 Sep 1997 - 12 Sep 2002 Mary Terese Winifred Bourke Robinson ... 1944-     (Ireland)

12 Sep 2002 - 19 Aug 2003 Sergio Vieira de Mello ................. 1948-2003 (Brazil)

02 Jun 2003 - 01 Jul 2004 Bertrand Gangapersaud Ramcharad ........ 1943-     (Guyana)

01 Jul 2004 - 30 Jun 2008 Louise Arbour .......................... 1947-     (Canada)

01 Jul      - 31 Aug 2008 Kyung-wha Kang ......................... 1955-     (South Korea)

                          (acting)

01 Sep 2008 - 31 Aug 2014 Navanethem Pillay ...................... 1941-     (South Africa)

01 Sep 2014 - 31 Aug 2018 Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein ...... 1964-     (Jordan)

01 Sep 2018 - 31 Aug 2022 Verónica Bachelet Jeria ................ 1951-     (Chile)

08 Sep 2022 -             Volker Türk ............................ 1965-     (Austria)

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League of Nations

28 Jun 1919               League of Nations Covenant signed

10 Jan 1920               League of Nations Covenant comes into force

20 Apr 1946               League of Nations dissolved and transferes

                          its reponsibilities to the U.N

Secretaries-General of the League of Nation

10 Jan 1920 - 03 Jul 1933 Sir James Eric Drummond (Great Britain)

03 Jul 1933 - 31 Aug 1940 Joseph Louis Anne Avenol (France)

01 Sep 1940 - 19 Apr 1946 Seán Lester (Ireland)

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