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United Nations SecretariatAdministrative body that coordinates United Nations activities. Its staff, recruited on the basis of merit, is composed of several thousand permanent professional experts from member states, including translators, clerks, technicians, administrators, project directors, and negotiators, who carry out the UN's day-to-day operations and administer the policies and programs set by the other divisions. They are required to swear an oath of loyalty to the UN and must not take instructions from their home governments. |
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| The secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification has projected that, without concerted efforts to arrest and reverse desertification, Asia could lose one-third of its arable land. For New Zealand, for example, the uptake estimated and reported in the initial communications to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is a substantial fraction of its own total emission. |
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