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unusual facts about secretariat


James S. Sutterlin

He spent 13 years working in various capacities for the Secretariat of the United Nations, has authored and co-authored several UN-themed books, and has worked closely with former UN Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar in drafting the latter’s memoirs, Pilgrimage for Peace (1997).


2013 Southern Weekly incident

Liu Yunshan, Member of the 18th CPC Politburo Standing Committee and First Secretary of the Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of China, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.

6th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

The Secretariat and the Politburo were suspended and replaced by a Presidium of the 7th Plenary Session, with Mao Zedong as chairman and Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi, Ren Bishi and Zhou Enlai as members.

7th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

#*Significance: Mao Zedong was appointed Chairman of the CPC Central Committee, aided by a Secretariat made up by Zhou Enlai, Ren Bishi, Liu Shaoqi and Zhu De.

Achille Silvestrini

Educated in Rome, Silvestrini became a priest in 1946 and after several years continuing his education in Rome via studies of theology, law and Church history, began a very long career in the Vatican Secretariat of State.

Akira Machida

In 1961 he was appointed as an assistant judge to the Tokyo District and its Family Court, the judge of the Muroran branch of the Sapporo District and its Family Court, and the judge of the Civil Affairs Bureau of the General Secretariat of the Supreme Court.

Belle Meade Plantation

The bloodlines of Belle Meade Plantation, primarily due to the success of "Bonnie Scotland, a Belle Meade foundation stud, include famous descendants such as Secretariat, Funny Cide, Seabiscuit, Giacamo, Mine That Bird, Smarty Jones, and Barbaro, Since the 1990s, every horse that has run the Kentucky Derby is a blood descendent of Belle Meade Plantation foundations.

Caroline Anstey

Caroline also served as Secretariat member of the InterAction Council, a group of former Heads of Government, chaired by Helmut Schmidt, that develops recommendations on political, economic, and social issues.

Cheriya Konni

Cheriya Konni is a small village in the suburb of Trivandrum district of Kerala, India, located 14 km from the Kerala Constituent assembly and 15 km from the Secretariat.

Commonwealth Secretariat

All members of staff are exempt from income tax, under the International Organisations Act 2005, which redefined the legal status of the Secretariat.

Commonwealth Secretariat Act 1966

The Commonwealth Secretariat Act 1966 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that established the legal character of the Secretariat of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Until the International Organisations Act 2005, the act did not grant employees of the Secretariat exemption from paying income tax, but this was granted with the passage of the later act.

Communist Women's International

While the Women's Department (Zhenotdel) of the Russian Communist Party had some success in mobilizing Soviet women for administrative tasks in Soviet Russia, the Communist Women's International and the Communist Women's Secretariat ultimately proved a failure outside the borders of the Soviet Union.

Community of Democracies

Leading up to the 2005 meeting in Santiago, the Chilean Executive Secretariat coordinated meetings of NGOs in six regions where civil society representatives met to discuss challenges and democracy deficits in their respective regions.

Czechoslovak Trade Union Association

On February 2, 1919, a Regional Trade Union Council of OSČ was formed in Slovakia, with a secretariat in Ružomberok.

Dodangoda Divisional Secretariat

Dodangoda Divisional Secretariat is situated in the western part of Kalutara district and bordered from north by Divisional Secretariats of Kalutara, Bandaragama and Madurawala; from east by Divisional Secretariat of Madurawala and Matugama; and from west by Divisional Secretariats of Beruwala and Kalutara.

Earth Charter Initiative

The Secretariat is composed by a very small staff, and it is based at the University for Peace campus in San José, Costa Rica.

Election Support Group

The secretariat for the group is the Pakistan branch of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems.

European Charter of Local Self-Government

The Group is currently considering, through a working group, the question of the possible revision of the Charter, in liaison with the Secretariat and the Rapporteur of the Congress, currently Christopher Newbury.

General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union

The respective Secretariats of the Schengen Agreement and of now-defunct Western European Union and European Political Cooperation have along the years been integrated with the Council Secretariat.

Giro Manoyan

Since 2000, he is the Director of the International Secretariat of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Bureau in Yerevan.

Green electricity in the United Kingdom

The Scheme is controlled by an independent Panel chaired by Solitaire Townsend, and the National Energy Foundation were appointed as the secretariat.

Homerazzi

Homer bursts in on the celebrities at their favorite nightclub and takes many compromising photos (of which include Sideshow Mel eating the American flag, Paris Texan making out with Milhouse, Drederick Tatum snorting the ashes of Secretariat like cocaine, and Mayor Quimby and Kent Brockman dressed in sexual costumes and roleplaying) Wolfcastle, resigned to having everyone's outrageous acts exposed, asks Homer what he plans to do with the pictures.

Hu Chunhua

From 1997 to 2001 Hu served in the Secretariat of the Communist Youth League and as a Vice Chairman of the All-China Youth Federation.

Inga-Britt Ahlenius

She holds a degree in business administration from the Stockholm School of Economics and started her career working in the economic secretariat of Sweden's largest commercial bank, Handelsbanken.

International Federation for Human Rights

The International Secretariat is based in Paris, with delegations to the United Nations in Geneva and New York, to the European Union in Brussels, to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, to the African Union in Nairobi and to the Asean in Bangkok.

Joaquín Gómez

Milton de Jesús Toncel Redondo aka Joaquín Gómez, aka Usuriaga (born March 18, 1947 in Barrancas, La Guajira), is a Colombian guerrilla Block Commander, member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) commanding the Southern Bloc of the FARC-EP and since March 2008 an official member of the Secretariat as a replacement for Raúl Reyes.

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).

Léon Bekaert

In 1958, he was one of the co-founders of the permanent international secretariat of the UNIAPAC in Brussels, thogether with Peter H. Werhahn (Germany) and Giuseppe Mosca (Italy), who became its President.

Luxembourg compromise

In 1960 Charles de Gaulle believed that a council of the heads of government should be created with a secretariat in Paris.

Martin Horwood

Its secretariat is the international indigenous rights organization, Survival International.

Matsuyama Declaration

Coordination Council of Matsuyama Declaration (Head of the secretariat is Gania Nishimura) was held in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, on July 18, 1999 and the draft of the Declaration was created.

Maurizio Landini

On 30 March 2005 Landini was elected to the national secretariat of the FIOM, the metalworkers' union of the Italian General Confederation of Labour.

Miki Yamada

She attended business school at Columbia University and subsequently worked in the Cabinet Secretariat under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, as a management consultant with Boston Consulting Group, and as a marketing executive for Hermès Japan.

Mohammad Toaha

On March 11, 1948 when a team led by Toaha went to Secretariat to give Khawaja Nazimuddin a memorandum police arrested him.

N K Raghupathy

With 40 years of service, teaching and research, he worked in West Bengal Secretariat and Government of India secretariat and finally as chairman of Staff Selection Commission from 2009 to 2013.

Nahuel Moreno

Prior to the reunification of the two factions in 1963, the International Secretariat's best-known leader in Latin America, J. Posadas, left to form his own Fourth International (Posadist).

New Democratic Forces

The National Executive Bureau was jointly headed by Léon Alfred Opimbat and Jean-Marie Tassoua, while Emile Aurélien Bongouandé was chosen as coordinator of the Permanent Secretariat.

Nikolay Krestinsky

After Vladimir Lenin's victory at the X Party Congress in March 1921, Krestinsky lost his Politburo, Orgburo and Secretariat posts and became Soviet ambassador to Germany.

P. D. T. Acharya

D. T. Acharya (born 17 June 1945) is the former Secretary General of the 14th Lok Sabha and 15th Lok Sabha and Lok Sabha Secretariat, Parliament of India, i.e. the House of the People in the Indian Parliament (similar to the British House of Commons).

Palitha Kohona

Previously he was the Secretary-General of the Government Peace Secretariat (2006) during which time he participated in two rounds of peace negotiations with the LTTE in Geneva and led the delegation to a round organised in Oslo.

Pancho Martin

Martin, portrayed by actor Nestor Serrano, is shown laying personal insults on the Secretariat team, and proclaiming during a press conference that the horse is not worthy to compete with Sham.

Politics of Scotland

The secretariat of the Executive is part of the UK Civil Service and the head of the Executive, the Permanent Secretary (presently Sir Peter Housden), is the equivalent of the Permanent Secretary of a Whitehall department.

Principles for Responsible Investment

The PRI Initiative has a Secretariat of around 50 staff based mostly in London, with staff based in New York, as well regional offices in Seoul, Sao Paulo, Amsterdam, Tokyo and Cape Town.

Promode Gogoi

He was a member of the central secretariat of the CPI and was reappointed to its national executive days before his death at the Patna congress of the party.

Roy Boudreau

He served in the opposition shadow cabinet at various times as critic for Department of Tourism and Parks, the Culture and Sport Secretariat, the anglophone section of the Department of Education and the Department of Family and Community Services.

Saratoga Race Course

Saratoga Race Course has several nicknames: The Spa (for the nearby mineral springs), the House of Upsets, and the Graveyard of Champions. Famous race horse Man o' War suffered his only defeat in twenty-one starts while racing at Saratoga Race Course; Secretariat was defeated at Saratoga Race Course by Onion, after winning the Triple Crown; and Gallant Fox had been beaten by the 100-1 longshot Jim Dandy in the 1930 Travers Stakes.

Volodymyr Horbulin

Until November 1999, he headed the State Interagency Commission for Cooperation with NATO and co-headed the Consulting Committee under presidents of Ukraine and Poland, co-headed the Secretariat of Kuchma-Gore Commission.

West Ukrainian People's Republic

Under him was the State Secretariat, whose members included Kost Levytsky (president of the secretariat and the Republic's minister of finance), Dmytro Vitovsky (head of the armed forces), Lonhyn Tsehelsky (secretary of internal affairs), and Oleksander Barvinsky (secretary of education and religious affairs), among others.


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