While each Secretary General effectively loses their nationality when they become SG, Trygve Lie was Norwegian.
As of January 2011, the current Secretary-General of the United Nations is Ban Ki-moon. He is from South Korea and currently lives in the official residence which is located in Manhattan, New York City, USA.
Authority tends to be local in nature, however, the Secretary General of the United Nations has global authority. In any given country, there will be someone who is in charge of that country and whose authority locally is greater than that of the Secretary General.
As of January 2011, the current Secretary-General of the United Nations is Ban Ki-moon. He is from South Korea.
Barack Obama is going to soon be the president of the United States, which has nothing to with the Secretary General of the United Nations. The secretary general is elected in the United Nations and currently is Ban Ki-moon.
The General Secretary was the leader of the Communist Party and not, officially, the leader of the country. But since all those countries were run by the Communist Party, the General Secretary ran the country. In most cases, he ran it into the ground.
No because they are chosen by the un
NORWAY. Trygve Halvdan Lie was a Norwegian politician, labour leader, government official and author. He served as Norwegian Foreign minister during the critical years of the Norwegian government in exile in London from 1940 to 1945. From 1946 to 1952 he was the first Secretary-General of the United Nations.
He's from South Korea.
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Patton was an American general.
South America is not one country, and it does not have a single leader. However, there is a new organization called the Union of South American Nations which is headed by Secretary-General Alí Rodríguez Araque.
No. The ambassador is the top diplomat.