secretary-general
the head or chief administrative officer of a secretariat.
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UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon echoed these remarks at another meeting in Washington D.C. on Wednesday.
Back home, KGB leadership was pledging loyalty to the secretary general and his planned reforms.
How the Fall of the Berlin Wall Radicalized Putin | Masha Gessen | November 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“It is difficult not to panic,” Flavio Tuzi, secretary general for the police union told The Daily Beast.
And also the Secretary General of the United Nations has also invited me to the Secretariat of the U.N. in New York.
But U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon recently released a report that painted a sorry picture of noncompliance.
Chardin des Lupeaulx, the secretary-general, was advised by him of the slightest developments.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheThe secretariat shall comprise a Secretary General and such secretaries and staff as may be required.
The secretaries and staff of the secretariat shall be appointed by the Secretary General with the approval of the council.
The Secretary General shall act in that capacity at all meetings of the assembly and of the council.
In the case of a recommendation the members will inform the secretary-general of the action taken.
British Dictionary definitions for secretary-general
a chief administrative official, as of the United Nations
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