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Previous secretaries-general have brought threats that they saw to international peace and security to the Security Council without mentioning Article 99.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

We don’t know why they didn’t invoke Article 99, and several of the previous secretaries-general are now dead.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

"The secretaries-general who've failed to get full second terms have antagonized one of the permanent five Security Council members," he said.

From Reuters • Jun. 19, 2011

At Caramanlis' urging, the Cabinet fired all the military-appointed provincial prefects and all secretaries-general of the government ministries.

From Time Magazine Archive

The chief of all the personnel of prefects, under-prefects, and secretaries-general represented there, lolling on these velvet divans in this vulgar greenroom.

From His Excellency the Minister by Roberts, Henri