United Nations Secretary-General

The United Nations Secretary-General is one of the most important people in the United Nations. The Secretary-General is important in international talks. The current Secretary-General is António Guterres.

Secretaries-General

	Secretary-General	Dates in office	Country of origin	Remarks	Ref
	Sir Gladwyn Jebb	October 24, 1945– February 2, 1946	United Kingdom Europe	Acting Secretary-General
1	Trygve Lie	February 2, 1946 – November 10, 1952	Norway Europe	Resigned	^[1]
2	Dag Hammarskjöld	April 10, 1953 – September 18, 1961	Sweden (Europe)	Died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)	^[2]
3	U Thant	November 30, 1961 – December 31, 1971	Burma Asia	Retired after 2nd term for personal reasons	^[3]
4	Kurt Waldheim	January 1, 1972 – December 31, 1981	Austria Europe	Chinese veto for his third term	^[4]
5	Javier Pérez de Cuéllar	January 1, 1982 – December 31, 1991	Peru South America	Refused a third term	^[5]
6	Boutros Boutros-Ghali	January 1, 1992 – December 31, 1996	Egypt Africa	American veto of his second term	^[6]
7	Kofi Annan	January 1, 1997– December 31, 2006	Ghana Africa	Retired after two terms	^[7]
8	Ban Ki-moon	January 1, 2007– December 31, 2016	South Korea Asia	Retired after two terms	^[8]
9	António Guterres	January 1, 2017– present	Portugal Europe		^[9]

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