The United Nations General Assembly,UNGA;French:Assemblée générale des Nations unies,AGDNU is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN),serving as its main deliberative,policymaking,and representative organ. Currently in its 79th session,its powers,composition,functions,and procedures are set out in Chapter IV of the United Nations Charter.
The United Nations Secretariat is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN),The secretariat is the UN's executive arm. The secretariat has an important role in setting the agenda for the deliberative and decision-making bodies of the UN,and the implementation of the decision of these bodies. The secretary-general,who is appointed by the General Assembly,is the head of the secretariat.
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. As of 2025,he remains the youngest person to have held the post,having been only 47 years old when he was appointed. He was a son of Hjalmar Hammarskjöld,who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1914 to 1917.
Serge Brammertz is a Belgian prosecutor,academic and jurist. He serves as the chief prosecutor for the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) since 2016. He also served as the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) from 2008 until its closure in 2017.
Achim Steiner is a Brazilian-German environmentalist who currently serves as the administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and vice-chair of United Nations Sustainable Development Group.
The International Peace Institute is an independent non-profit think tank founded in 1970 based in New York. The institute has a regional office in the Middle East and had a regional office in Europe until 2020.
Bruno Stagno Ugarte was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica from 2006 to 2010 and was the president of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 2005 to 2008.
María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés is an Ecuadorian linguist,poet,politician,and diplomat. Currently,is Executive Director of GWL Voices,an NGO dedicated to achieve a gender-equal multilateral system. She served as an advisor on biodiversity and indigenous peoples (1999-2005) and was the regional director for South America (2005-2007) at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Espinosa Garcés was Ecuador's Minister of Foreign Affairs twice,from 2007 to 2008 and then from 2017 to 2018. She also served as ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations in New York (2008-2009) and Geneva (2014-2017),and as Ecuador's Minister of National Defense (2012-2014). In June 2018,she was elected President of the United Nations General Assembly for the 73rd session by a two-thirds vote of the member states. Espinosa Garcés became the fourth woman in the seventy-three-year history of the United Nations to be elected President of the General Assembly. Besides her political career,she is also a poet and essayist.
Hans-Peter Kaul was a German international law scholar and former diplomat and lawyer. From 11 March 2003 until 1 July 2014,he served as Judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. At the ICC,Kaul was President of the Pre-Trial Division from 2004 until March 2009 and again in 2014,and he was the Court's Second Vice-President from 2009 to 2012. In 2014,he resigned from the ICC for health reasons but his condition became worse and he died on 21 July 2014.
Ivo Šlaus is a nuclear and particle physicist and Distinguished Fellow of New Westminster College.
Pablo de Greiff is a Colombian academic and human rights activist,who served as the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth,justice,reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence. In January 2015 he was also asked to be part of UNIIB,a United Nations mission of Independent Experts to address the situation in Burundi. From 2019 to 2020 he was part of a group of experts advising the UN Human Rights Council on its preventive functions. In April 2022 he was appointed as one of the three commissioners in the Independent Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine established by the UN. Since 2014 he is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice of the School of Law at New York University,where he directs both the Transitional Justice Program and the Prevention Project.
Åke Wilhelm Hjalmar Hammarskjöld was a Swedish lawyer and diplomat. He was the first Registrar of the Permanent Court of International Justice,serving from 1922 to 1936,when he was elected to the position of judge to the same court. He served in the latter position until his death.
Peter Maurer is a Swiss diplomat who was the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from 1 July 2012 until October 2022 and is currently President of the Basel Institute on Governance.
Mohamed Chande Othman is a Tanzanian lawyer and a former Chief Justice of Tanzania.
Rosemary Anne DiCarlo is an American diplomat who has served as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs since May 2018. She previously served as acting United States Ambassador to the United Nations following the resignation of Susan Rice to become the National Security Advisor.
Christoph Heusgen is a German diplomat who has served as chairman of the Munich Security Conference since 2022.
Natalia Kanem is a medical doctor who currently serves as the Executive Director of UNFPA,the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. In this capacity,she is among the highest-ranking women at the United Nations and the first Latin American to head UNFPA.
Sweden became a member of the United Nations on November 19,1946. Sweden has historically contributed with political leadership;politicians and diplomats such as Dag Hammarskjöld,Folke Bernadotte,Alva Myrdal and Margot Wallström and others have all played important roles in the development of the UN organization. Sweden is one of few member nations which meets or exceeds United Nations humanitarian aid spending target of 0.7% of GDP. In 2017,Swedish aid spending amounted to 1.4% of its GDP. The country has held a non-permanent seat in the Security Council four times,most recently between 2017 and 2018.
Anna Karin Eneström is a Swedish diplomat who has been serving as the Swedish Permanent Representative to the United Nations,having presented her credentials on 6 January 2020. She had been Deputy Permanent Representative since 2019 a 2022.
The Principality of Liechtenstein is a member state of the United Nations. The Principality of Liechtenstein joined the United Nations on September 18,1990. It has never been a member of the Security Council. The Principality of Liechtenstein is a part of the Group of Western European and Other States (WEOG).
