Sentence examples for small secretariat from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, a dispute-settlement body and a small secretariat were eventually set up.

At present only the small secretariat staff and technical support units are paid.

With a mandate to spend billions of dollars, the Fund operates from a small Secretariat in South Korea.

Since it consists of a small secretariat in Geneva and a few local offices, it lacks the scientific and managerial infrastructure to do this itself.

It could start with a small secretariat of a few people, housed within an existing transparency organisation or the World Bank (in its role as a major international financier of government contracts, and as the sponsor of open contracting).

The only global body tasked with protecting the world's wildlife is a network of officials in each of the nations signed up to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), which is co-ordinated by a small secretariat in Geneva.

Though not all the members are yet named — a sign of lingering disputes — the council organized itself into a body of 230 representatives, with a smaller secretariat of 29 people and an executive committee of 7. The executive committee counts among its members a Muslim Brotherhood leader, a figure from the Assyrian minority, and a Syrian academic in France, in addition to Mr. Nachar.

They walked slowly toward me, and I was struck by how much smaller Secretariat seemed in real life.

Currently, the very small G77 secretariat acts informally for the NAM, which is inadequate and justifies the need for fully fledged secretariat.

This is the base of the Council of the European Union, a small Brussels secretariat for the EU's 27 national governments.

ASEAN's traditions and structure with a small, understaffed secretariat in Jakarta and no powers to force compliance make removing such barriers very difficult.