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Administrative divisions of Greece

The third level is composed of the new decentralized administrations (αποκεντρωμένες διοικήσεις, apokentroménes dioikíseis), comprising two or three regions (except for Attica and Crete), run by a government-appointed general secretary, assisted by an advisory council drawn from the regional governors and the representatives of the municipalities.

Alexander Poskrebyshev

From 1935 Poskrebyshev also acted as the Director of Administration of the General Secretary, succeeding Ivan Tovstukha on his death.

Collective leadership

Collective leadership is characterised by limiting the powers of the General Secretary and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers as related to other offices by enhancing the powers of collective bodies, such as the Politburo.

Dravidar Kazhagam

The General Secretary of the Dravidar Kazhagam, K. Veeramani and the representatives of other parties met the President of India and urged the need for carrying out the recommendations of the Commission.

Đỗ Mười

On 27 June, following Đỗ Mười's election as General Secretary, Jiang Zemin, the Chinese Party's (CPC) General Secretary, used the occasion to congratulate Đỗ Mười and stated that he hoped that relations between China and Vietnam would be normalized, on a state-to-state and a party-to-party basis.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of China

The General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, officially General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is the highest ranking official within the Communist Party of China, a standing member of the Politburo and head of the Secretariat.

George Hewison

Hewison succeeded William Kashtan as general secretary of the Communist Party of Canada in 1988 at a time when the Communist world was being convulsed by Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms in the Soviet Union.

Inomjon Usmonxo‘jayev

Inomjon Buzrukovich Usmonxo‘jayev (in Cyrillic Uzbek: Иномжон Бузрукович Усмонхўжаев ; in Russian: Инамджан Бузрукович Усманходжаев Inamdzhan Buzrukovich Usmankhodzhayev) (born on 21 May 1930) served as the eleventh General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Uzbek SSR.

Isa Alptekin

He headed the First East Turkestan Republic in Kashgar from November 12, 1933 to February 6, 1934 as the General Secretary of the National Assembly of the Republic, alongside Prime Minister Sabit Damulla, and titular President Hoja-Niyaz.

Jamuna Oil Company

The Chairman is the Joint Secretary of (Energy & Mineral Resources Division) at the Ministry of Power, Energy & Mineral Resource of the Government of Bangladesh.

The Fourth Director is the Deputy Secretary of Ministry of Power, Energy & Mineral Resource, Dhaka, The Government of Bangladesh.

Jean-Baptiste Soufron

After the election of Hollande as President of France and the nomination of Fleur Pellerin as Deputy Minister of Small & Medium-Sized Businesses and Digital Economy, he became senior advisor on digital economy to Fleur Pellerin and then General Secretary of Conseil national du numérique.

John Monks

John Stephen Monks, Baron Monks (born 5 August 1945 in Manchester) is a member of the House of Lords and was the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in the UK from 1993 until 2003, when he became the General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC).

Miguel Figueroa

Under the leadership of general secretary George Hewison (1988–92), the leadership of the CPC and a segment of its general membership began to abandon Marxism-Leninism as the basis of the Party's revolutionary perspective, and ultimately moved to liquidate the Party itself, seeking to replace it with a left, social democratic entity.

Mikhail Stakhurskii

After the war, from 1945 to 1961, he served as the First Secretary of four regional party committees, including three in Ukraine (Vinnytsia Oblast from 1945–1951, Poltava Oblast from 1951–1955, and Zhytomyr Oblast from 1957–1961) and one in Russia (Khabarovsk Krai from 1955–1957).

Stanley Brehaut Ryerson

Following the outlawing of the CPC in 1940, General Secretary Tim Buck along with Sam Carr and Charles Sims fled Canada for the safety of New York where they would reside under the protection of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA).

Stockholm School of Economics

Other prominent members of the Stockholm school were the Stockholm University professor Gustav Cassel, who developed standard economic theory of Purchasing power parity and economist Dag Hammarskjöld, general secretary of the United Nations in New York City, USA.

United Nations Convention on Environmental Modification

In 1974 and 1975, U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev held three sets of discussions on the issue.


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ACTS Academy of Higher Education

The Academy was founded by Ken Gnanakan, a well known Christian theologian from India who served as General Secretary of Asia Theological Association for several years.

Bhushan

Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India

Dorsami Naidu

Announcing his resignation, Naidu commented on the party's general secretary, Pramod Rae, for going public with calls for him to step down.

Edwin Cameron

He is the general secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships in Southern Africa (www.rhodestrust.org.za) and is a patron of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.

Flag of Fiji

"The coat of arms is very significant because it has the word of God, then it has the two warriors and the Fijian canoe also. I think that the council members prefer that the full coat of arms be included in the Fiji flag," said Asesela Sadole, General Secretary of the Great Council of Chiefs.

Frank Bainimarama

Attar Singh, General Secretary for the Fiji Islands Council of Trade Unions, said: "We have never seen anything worse than this decree. It is without doubt designed to decimate unions ... by giving employers an unfair advantage over workers and unions".

Grand Coalition for Fiji

National Federation Party General Secretary Pramod Rae considered that internal differences in the coalition would cause it to be short-lived.

Hans Hassle

Since 2008 Hans Hassle serves as the CEO and General Secretary of Plantagon.

Harold Heslop

Heslop's political activity included working for the British Communist Party's general secretary, Harry Pollitt against Ramsay MacDonald for the Seaham division of Durham in the 1929 election.

Hibi Eden

Hibi Eden was the general secretary of the KSU led Union at Sacred Heart College, Thevara.

International Meteorological Organization

Adolphe Quetelet, director of the Royal Observatory of Belgium and general secretary of the Academie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts with Victor Lahure, navy captain and general director of the Navy, represented Belgium.

István Gyulai

István Gyulai (March 21, 1943 in Budapest – March 12, 2006 in Monte Carlo) was a former Hungarian television commentator and General Secretary of the IAAF.

Jenő Szervánszky

A coalition cabinet was formed, with Ferenc Nagy, a prominent member of the Small Landholders' Party, as Premier and Mátyás Rákosi, the General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist party, as Vice-Premier.

Jimmy Deane

After attempting to bring about an unsuccessful fusion between the RSL and the International Group as well as joint work with the International Socialists in a magazine Young Guard, Jimmy Deane suggested Peter Taaffe as his successor as General Secretary and editor of the soon to be launched Militant.

Josep Maria Rañé i Blasco

He is affiliated to the Unión General de Trabajadores (Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT, General Workers' Union) of Catalonia since 1976, he has been the General Secretary (1978–1979) of its Local Union of Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Secretary of union policy (1979–1981), General Secretary (1981–1990) of the Baix Llobregat, Secretary of institutional policy of the National Secretariat of the UGT of Catalonia (1990–1997) and Defender of members' rights of the UGT (1997-2001).

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra

He has also been deputy of the Assembly for Badajoz, General Secretary of PSOE of Extremadura, Executive Secretary of the Executive Federal Commission of the PSOE and teacher in commission of services for political matters of the Department of Hispanic Philology of the University of Extremadura in the Department of Education of Badajoz.

July 2006 in the Middle East

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan calls for an "immediate cessation of hostilities" in the Middle East.

Kashtan

William Kashtan (1909–1993), general secretary of the Communist Party of Canada

Langpih

MPHRC General Secretary Dino Dympep met with UN Special Rapporteur James Anaya regarding the 2010 killings, following which Anaya sent a communique to the Government of India.

Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas

Recent presenters have included Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches; Rev. Timothy Radcliffe, OP, former Master of the Order; Rabbi Jack Bemporad of the Center for Interreligious Understanding; Archbishop Luis Ladaria, SJ, of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Mary McAleese, president emeritus of Ireland.

Lê Khả Phiêu

Lê Khả Phiêu (born 27 December 1931 at Đông Khê Commune, Đông Sơn District, Thanh Hóa Province) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from December 1997 to April 2001 and has a military background.

Linda Haglund

Hans Holmer, later to become known as the Chief of Special Investigation in the assassination of the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986, was a principal in Haglund's defense, alongside Ulf Ekelund, the General Secretary of the Swedish Track and Field Federation.

Lúcio Lara

Lúcio Lara (born April 9, 1929 in Huambo) served as General Secretary of the MPLA during the Angolan War of Independence and Angolan Civil War.

Lütfi Arıboğan

In 2005, he became the general secretary of the Turkish Football Association under the presidency of Levent Bıçakçı and continued to serve in various roles under TFF presidents Haluk Ulusoy, Hasan Doğan, Mahmut Özgener and Mehmet Ali Aydınlar until January 2012.

Mark Serwotka

In the 2000 election that saw Serwotka elected General Secretary, he initially faced two rival candidates: Hugh Lanning of the Membership First faction and the incumbent Barry Reamsbottom of the National Moderate Group.

Maurizio Landini

Maurizio Landini (born 7 August 1961) is an Italian trade unionist and General Secretary of the FIOM.

Michael Leahy

Michael J. Leahy (born 1949), General Secretary of the British Trade Union Community

Michael Swierczek

Swierczek then threw his lot in with the Free German Workers' Party (FAP), serving that group as both Vice General Secretary and chair of the FAP-Landesverbandes Bayern.

Militão Ribeiro

After the death of the former General Secretary of the Party, Bento Gonçalves, in the prison camp of Tarrafal, in Portuguese Cape Verde, Militão Ribeiro initiated, along with Álvaro Cunhal and Júlio Fogaça, a major reorganization of the Party, in the early 1940s.

Najeeb Haroon

He was also the president of the Karachi Division from 1996 to 2000, vice-president of PTI Sindh from 2000 to 2001 and general secretary of PTI Sindh from 2001 to 2003 of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

National Security Commission of the Communist Party of China

The Commission is headed by General Secretary Xi Jinping (also President) with Politburo Standing Committee members Li Keqiang (also Premier) and Zhang Dejiang (also Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee) as deputies.

Norwegian Baptist Union

13 representatives from 8 churches met and formed the Norwegian Baptist Union (NBU) in 1878, with Janne M. Sjödahl being elected its first general secretary in 1879.

Oommen Chandy

The siege was addressed by Former Prime Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) chief H. D. Deve Gowda and CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat.

Parminder Singh Dhindsa

His father Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa is Akali Dal General Secretary, former Union minister and Rajya Sabha member.

Phuong Ngo

The ALP General Secretary, John Della Bosca arranged a meeting to resolve the dispute and Ngo agreed not to challenge Newman for pre-selection in exchange for Newman not challenging the credentials of members who joined Ngo’s branch.

Puducherry Legislative Assembly election, 2011

Several high-profile national politicians took part in the campaigning: Sonia Gandhi (president of the Indian National Congress), Rahul Gandhi (Indian National Congress general secretary), Pranab Mukherjee (Indian National Congress union minister), Nitin Gadkari (BJP president), Sushma Swaraj (BJP MP), Venkaiah Naidu (former BJP president), M. Karunanidhi (DMK chief minister of Tamil Nadu), J. Jayalalithaa (leader of AIADMK) and Vijayakanth (leader of DMDK).

Redwatch

Following the TUC's annual Congress in September 2004, where an anti-Redwatch resolution was passed, the TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber wrote to Home Secretary David Blunkett, requesting a meeting to discuss the issue.

Robin Roy Snyman

In February 1978 Snyman made controversial remarks concerning Bishop Tutu just prior to his taking up his position as General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches.

Ron Tripp

Ron Tripp (born April 1953) Battle Creek, Michigan, is a World Sambo and Judo champion and the current general secretary of USA Judo.

Rubén Gallego

Gallego was separated from his family at the age of one; he was sent to a state orphanage, because his grandfather, Ignacio Gallego, a Spanish Communist politician (General Secretary of the Spanish Communist Party since 1984), was ashamed of him and told his daughter Aurora Gallego Rodríguez (Ruben's mother) that her son had died.

Spennymoor

The banner was unfurled on the night before the big meeting, by MEP Stephen Hughes and long-time trade unionist Rodney Bickerstaffe, General Secretary of the trade union UNISON from 1995 to 2001.

Tony Hearn

Hearn became the General Secretary of the ABS in 1984, and took it into a merger with the National Association of Theatrical and Kine Employees, which formed the Broadcasting and Entertainment Trades Alliance (BETA).

Tuanpai

Hu Jintao, former CPC General Secretary, former PRC President

Tupeni Baba

Fijian Political Party (SVT) General Secretary Ema Druavesi also expressed disappointment with Baba's decision, saying he had joined a party lacking "the character of a good leadership."

Veekshanam

At present, Benny Behanan, General Secretary of KPCC is the Managing Director of the paper and Ramesh Chennithala, KPCC President is the General Manager.

Việt Tân

Members were elected the Central Committee headed by Đỗ Hoàng Điềm as chairman and Ly Thai Hung as general secretary.

Wang Jiaxiang

As reward for their defection, Zhang Wentian replaced Bo Gu as General Secretary of CPC, and Wang took the military command by a three-men group with Mao and Zhou.

Workers' Union of Ireland

After Big Jim Larkin's 1947 death, his son James Larkin, Jnr became general secretary, and continued to preside over a gradual expansion of the WUI, including amalgamations with a number of other unions.

YWCA

The most recent World YWCA Council occurred in Nairobi, Kenya in July 2007, where Susan Brennan, an Australian barrister and former co-president of the YWCA of Australia succeeded Mónica Zetzsche, and Nyaradzai Gumbonzvanda, a UNIFEM programme director and human rights lawyer from Zimbabwe succeeded General Secretary Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro.