These include state bodies such as the ministries of energy, environment, interior and transportation and the under-secretariat for foreign trade.
Any body that does not set up its own ethics monitoring system will come under the secretariat's Ethics Office.
Psellus served in the Byzantine state secretariat under the emperors Michael V (1041 42) and Constantine IX (1042 54).
Interpol's day-to-day operation is managed by a General Secretariat under the direction of a secretary general, who is appointed for a five-year term by the General Assembly.
To fight him, the US and Belgium used all the tools and resources at their disposal, including the United Nations secretariat, under Dag Hammarskjöld and Ralph Bunche, to buy the support of Lumumba's Congolese rivals, and hired killers.
But when it came time to adopt stringent budgetary changes at the United Nations, cementing fiscal and personnel authority with the Secretariat under Kofi Annan and taking some of it away from the General Assembly, the votes were not there.
The programme is administered by the National Social Cash Transfer (SCT) Secretariat under the Ministry of Gender and Development and overseen by the National Social Protection Steering Committee of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs.
As a first step he decided to streamline the bulging UN secretariat, reducing the number of under secretaries and appointing high-calibre personnel.
Maudling - like Macleod and Enoch Powell - began his real political life as part of the Conservatives' Opposition Secretariat, which was set up under Winston Churchill's leadership but without much enthusiasm from the great man.
With his first wins under his belt, the time had arrived for Secretariat to prove that he was something special.
