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Government Documents and Information: United Nations: Secretaries-General

About the Secretary-General

The Secretary-General of the United Nations is the head of the UN Secretariat, one of the six major organs of the United Nations.

General resources for UN research

Papers of/or relating to the Secretaries-General

Annual Report of the Secretary General on the Organization
The Collected Papers of Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, 1997-2006
The Papers of United Nations Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1992-1996)
Public Papers of the Secretaries-General of the United Nations
Covers the terms of Tryve Lie (1946-1952), Dag Hammarskjöld (1953-1961), and U Thant (1961-1971).
Reports of the Secretary General
Contains reports back to 1994 to ECOSOC
UN Archives- Papers of Secretary General Ban Ki Moon
Unofficial copies. The finding aid in the link below will explain which items have been scanned and which ones have not
United Nations Secretary General
Current page of the Secretary General

Archival collections

Secretaries-General in the UN Archives
Includes biographies and finding aids for each Secretary-General's collection in the UN Archives.
Finding aid to the Javier Pérez de Cuéllar papers at Yale
The papers consist of photocopies of United Nations documents used in the writing of Javier Pérez de Cuéllar's memoirs, Pilgrimage for Peace: A Secretary-General's Memoir. His biography recounts his two terms (1982-1991) as United Nations Secretary-General, focusing on those issues and countries with which he had the largest personal involvement.

Bibliography

United Nations Secretaries-General: A Bibliography with Indexes