Who was the previous UN Secretary-General?

Guterres‘ predecessors as Secretary-General were: Ban Ki-moon (Korea) who served from January 2007 to December 2016; Kofi Annan (Ghana) who held office from January 1997 to December 2006; Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egypt), who held office from January 1992 to December 1996; Javier Pèrez de Cuèllar (Peru), who served from …

Eight Secretaries

Trygve Lie

Although different regions have held the office, no woman has ever been selected as Secretary–General. In December 2015, General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft and Security Council President Samantha Power wrote a joint letter to all member states, encouraging them to nominate female candidates as well as men.

Secretary-General António Guterres

The Secretary–General is appointed by the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Security Council. The Secretary–General’s selection is therefore subject to the veto of any of the five permanent members of the Security Council.

The Secretary-General’s salary, which has not changed since 1997, is set at $227,253.

Secretary-General

The General Assembly is the main body of the UN and is made up of representatives from all member states. … The UN also asserts the right of the Security Council to be the only entity with the power to declare international uses of legitimate military force.

The permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (also known as the Permanent Five, Big Five, or P5) are the five sovereign states to whom the UN Charter of 1945 grants a permanent seat on the UN Security Council: China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Vatican City

US Made an Offer in 1950 Congress leader and former UN Under-Secretary General Shashi Tharoor had said in an interview in 2004 that Nehru “declined a US offer” to India to take a permanent seat at the UNSC in 1953, and said China be given the seat instead.

Chapter 5 of the UN Charter deals with the membership of the Security Council. … This means China or any other permanent member can be removed, or a new permanent member added to the Security Council only through an amendment of the UN Charter. Chapter 18 of the UN Charter lays down the procedure for its amendment.

A Member of the United Nations which has persistently violated the Principles contained in the present Charter may be expelled from the Organization by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council.

China contributed a total of $12 million to the UN regular budget in 2000 – accounting for just one percent of total contributions. By 2019, this number had surged to $367.

With India being part of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as the non-permanent member from Janu, and UN 75 years of celebration (2020) hangover rolling over to next year, the debate on UNSC reforms continues, with no worthwhile progress, despite high pitch for reforms made by many countries …

India will begin its two-year tenure as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on January 1. India will sit in the 15-nation UNSC for the 2021-22 term as a non-permanent member — the eighth time that the country has had a seat on the powerful horseshoe table.

Pakistan

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Paul-Henri Spaak