Dag Hammarskjöld’s Credo and The United Nations

2019 ◽  
pp. 29-48
Author(s):  
Henning Melber
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Member States ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Individual

Firstly, this chapter illustrates the specific constellation of interests within the UN Security Council, due to which Dag Hammarskjöld became the accepted candidate to succeed Trygve Lie as second Secretary-General of the United Nations as ‘the unknown Swede’. It then summarizes his convictions, which were already internalized when he was a civil servant, as well as his loyalty to the values and principles of the UN Charter as a ‘secular bible’. Solidarity and universal humanity were among Hammarskjöld’s key notions and guided his ethics. It finally explains how Hammarskjöld defined the need of the international civil service as being independent from the individual influences and interests of UN Member States to act in neutrality to fully serve the defined principles of global governance as laid out in the UN Charter.

2. Memorandum on the Legal Aspects of the Problem of Representation in the United Nations, Transmitted to the President of the Security Council by the Secretary-General (Lie), March 8, 1950.

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-360
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Member States ◽  
Practical Standpoint ◽  
The United Nations

The primary difficulty in the current question of the representation of Member States in die United Nations is that this question of representation has been linked up with the question of recognition by Member Governments.It will be shown here that this linkage is unfortunate from the practical standpoint, and wrong from the standpoint of legal theory.

1. Report of the Interim Committee of the General Assembly on the Problem of Voting in the Security Council, July 15, 1948.

1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-202
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Third ◽  
The United Nations

1. On 21 November 1947, by its resolution 117 (II), the General Assembly requested the Interim Committee to:“1. Consider the problem of voting in the Security Council, taking into account all proposals which have been or may be submitted by Members of the United Nations to the second session of die General Assembly or to the Interim Committee;“2. Consult with any committee which the Security Council may designate to co-operate with the Interim Committee in the study of the problem;“3. Report, with its conclusions, to the third session of the General Assembly, the report to be transmitted to the Secretary-General not later than 15 July 1948, and by the Secretary-General to the Member States and to the General Assembly.”

Legal Advisers Meet at UN Headquarters in New york

1991 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 371-373
Author(s):  
Hans Corell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Counsel ◽  
Member States ◽  
The United Nations

On October 29 and 30, 1990, a meeting was held of the heads of the offices responsible for international legal services of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the member states of the United Nations—the Legal Advisers. The meeting was organized at the invitation of the Legal Advisers of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Canada, India, Mexico, Poland and Sweden, and with the assistance of the Legal Counsel of the United Nations, Under-Secretary-General Carl-August Fleischhauer. Some twenty-five Legal Advisers and thirty-two of their deputies or other representatives attended, including all five colleagues representing the permanent members of the Security Council.

The Hodeida Agreement that Never Was: Design, Implementation, and Implications on Conflict and Peace in Yemen

2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 271-276
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Galal Fakirah
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The City

On December 13, 2018, the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, António Guterres, attended the conclusion of the Stockholm Agreement. The agreement was comprised of three subsidiary arrangements: the Hodeida Agreement; the Prisoner's Deal; and the half-page Taiz Understanding. The Hodeida Agreement, which was backed by UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolutions 2451 (2018) and 2452 (2019), contained several issues with a three-week timeline, including: (1) an immediate ceasefire; (2) redeployment, not withdrawal, of forces; (3) the formation of a UN-led Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC); (4) removal of fortifications and halt of military reinforcements; (5) demining of Hodeida ports, not the city; (6) a strengthened UN presence; (7) and security and economic measures.

Third Legal Advisers’ Meeting at UN Headquarters in New York

1993 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-328
Author(s):  
Hans Corell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Counsel ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Third ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Foreign Ministries

On October 26 and 27, 1992, a meeting was held of the heads of the offices responsible for international legal services of the foreign ministries of the member states of the United Nations—the Legal Advisers. The meeting—the third of its kind—was organized at the invitation of the Legal Advisers of Canada, India, Mexico, Poland and Sweden, and with the assistance of the Legal Counsel of the United Nations, Under-Secretary-General Carl-August Fleischhauer. Thirty Legal Advisers and sixteen of their deputies attended, together with nearly fifty other interested participants. All five colleagues representing the permanent members of the Security Council were present.

Precommitment Regimes for Intervention: Supplementing the Security Council

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Buchanan ◽  
Robert O. Keohane
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Military Force ◽  
General Account ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
Ongoing Development ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Governance Institutions

As global governance institutions proliferate and become more powerful, their legitimacy is subject to ever sharper scrutiny. Yet what legitimacy means in this context and how it is to be ascertained are often unclear. In a previous paper in this journal, we offered a general account of the legitimacy of such institutions and a set of standards for determining when they are legitimate. In this paper we focus on the legitimacy of the UN Security Council as an institution for making decisions concerning the use of military force across state borders. The context for this topic has changed over the last decade as a result of the ongoing development of the responsibility to protect (RtoP) doctrine and extensive discussions about it in the United Nations. Yet the mostly widely accepted proposals for RtoP still require Security Council authorization for forceful intervention, and strictly limit the conditions under which such intervention may take place.

The UN Secretary-General and the Security Council

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Organizational Relationships ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
International Mediation ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Relationship

The United Nations Secretary-General and the United Nations Security Council spend significant amounts of time on their relationship with each other. They rely on each other for such important activities as peacekeeping, international mediation, and the formulation and application of normative standards in defense of international peace and security—in other words, the executive aspects of the UN’s work. The edited book The UN Secretary-General and the Security Council: A Dynamic Relationship aims to fill an important lacuna in the scholarship on the UN system. Although there exists an impressive body of literature on the development and significance of the Secretariat and the Security Council as separate organs, an important gap remains in our understanding of the interactions between them. Bringing together some of the most prominent authorities on the subject, this volume is the first book-length treatment of this topic. It studies the UN from an innovative angle, creating new insights on the (autonomous) policy-making of international organizations and adding to our understanding of the dynamics of intra-organizational relationships. Within the book, the contributors examine how each Secretary-General interacted with the Security Council, touching upon such issues as the role of personality, the formal and informal infrastructure of the relationship, the selection and appointment processes, as well as the Secretary-General’s threefold role as a crisis manager, administrative manager, and manager of ideas.

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