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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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Andean sculptor Peruko Ccopacatty has lived in the United States since 1981, but as he said in a recent interview about a retrospective exhibit of his work in the United Nations Secretariat lobby last year, "I have never left Peru". He also worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the State of Kuwait and as a United Nations Secretariat. He joined the United Nations Secretariat in 1971 and last served at Headquarters in 1997. |
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