A new professional general secretariat, akin to a company's executive board, will handle the business side of FIFA, leaving the 36-member Council, elected by national member associations and including at least six women, to focus on broad matters of policy and strategy.
Like many United Nations officials, he blames peacekeeping failures on the shortsightedness or hypocrisy of member states rather than on the professionals in the Secretariat; his lengthy indictment with regard to Bosnia, for example, includes not a word about the peacekeepers' own self-defeating culture of neutrality.
The International Labour Office in Geneva, Switzerland, composed of the permanent Secretariat and professional staff, handles day-to-day operations under the supervision of an appointed director general.
Good governance to ensure oversight and transparency and an effective, professional, and suitably competent secretariat will be essential," says the paper.
There is some grumbling about Holbrooke from some of the professionals in the United Nations Secretariat, but very little from the diplomats themselves, who seem to be less obsessed with matters of etiquette than you might think.
They need a separate building, their own secretariat and a professional and objective approach to the job.
Mr. Annan, a slender, 63-year-old Ghanaian aristocrat who has spent most of his professional life in the United Nations Secretariat and who was unanimously elected to a second five-year term in June, was visibly buoyed by the prize.
He gave a timid kick that was easily caught by the goalkeeper — an American employee of the secretariat, a semi-professional soccer player dressed in actual athletic gear.
The agency was established in 1957 under the United Nations umbrella, and its secretariat now employs 2,200 professional and support staff.
In addition to the financial aid, the Secretariat for Education provides professional and administrative support in monitoring of the programme implementation.
