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The Role of the Secretary-General

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The issue of colonialism was not the only question raised by Khrushchev in his celebrated speech to the General Assembly on 23 September, 1960. He raised too, in equally forthright and outspoken terms, the question of the role of the Secretary-General.

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  1. The Swedish economist Erik Lundberg, quoted in J. P. Lash, Dag Hammarskjöld (London, 1961) p. 37.

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Luard, E. (1989). The Role of the Secretary-General. In: A History of the United Nations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20030-6_10

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