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Secretary-General-Kofi-Annan-1997 Summary of AG-029 Secretary-General Kofi Annan (1997- 2006) Title Secretary-General Kofi Annan (1997-2006) Active Dates 1954-2009 Administrative History Kofi A. Annan of Ghana, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, served from 1997 to 2006. Scope and Content UN-Wide Policy S-1091 Intra-Organisational Relations S-1092 Inter-Agency Relations S-1093 Intergovernmental Programmes and Initiatives S-1094 Issues S-1095 External Relations S-1096 Press matters and public relations S-1097 Secretary-General's activities S-1098 Administration and Finance S-1099 Secretary-General Personal S-1100 Strictly Confidential Notes of Meetings, etc. S-1101 Collection Inventory AG-029-001 Office of the Deputy Secretary-General 1998-2006 Scope and Content Sub-fonds contain records such as correspondence, code cables, reports, statements, speeches, agenda, minutes and notes of meetings, press releases. Series also contains records documenting the admission of countries to the United Nations. Administrative History The Office of the Deputy Secretary General was created in 1997 to: a. assist the Secretary-General in managing the operations of the Secretariat; b. act for the Secretary-General at United Nations Headquarters in the absence of the Secretary-General and in other cases as may be decided by the Secretary-General; c. support the Secretary-General in ensuring intersectoral and inter-institutional coherence of activities and programmes and to support the Secretary-General in elevating the profile and leadership of the United Nations in the economic and social spheres, including further efforts to strengthen the United Nations as a leading center for development policy and development assistance; d. represent the Secretary-General at conferences, official functions and ceremonial and other occasions as may be decided by the Secretary-General; e. undertake such assignments as may be determined by the Secretary-General. Ms. Louise Fréchette served as Deputy Secretary-General from 1997 to 2006, and as part of her work she chaired the Steering Committee on Reform and Management Policy and the Advisory Board of the United Nations Fund for International Partnerships (UNFIP). Her papers comprise three series, including external relations, trips and activities. These match the series arrangement established for the papers of Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Before joining the United Nations, Ms. Fréchette was the Deputy Minister in her native country of Canada’s Department of Finance. In addition, she served as the Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations from 1992 to 1995. She also worked as First Secretary at the Canadian Mission to the United Nations in Geneva from 1978 to 1982. After acting as Deputy Director of the Trade Policy Division in the Department of External Affairs from 1982 to 1983, Ms. Fréchette became Director of the European Summit Division from 1983 to 1985. She received her first ambassadorship in 1985, performing as Canada’s ambassador to Argentina with concurrent accreditation to Uruguay and Paraguay. Ms. Fréchette resigned as Deputy-Secretary General in April of 2006 and was succeeded by Mark Malloch Brown, who served as Interim DSG until December of that year -- these records are present in Series 1184. S-1896 Deputy Secretary-General's Activities 1998-2006 Scope and Content Series 1896 consists of chronological files, statements and schedules of the Deputy Secretary-General. Louise Fréchette was appointed Deputy Secretary-General in April 1997 and concluded her tenure in April 2006. The chronological file consists of 6.5 boxes of material spanning 1998-2005 with gaps. Records for March to December 2001 are not available. These records provide an overview of Fréchette’s daily work and activities. The files contain information about the Oil-for-Food program, East Timor elections (1999), Sudanese Civil War, crisis in Darfur, avian influenza, and the political situation in Iraq in the early 21st century. In addition, there are invitations, briefing notes, personnel records, weekly updates to the Secretary-General, notes and thank you letters to world diplomats and ministers. The statements and schedule files consist of 5.5 boxes of material spanning 1998-2006. The records also comprises of speeches, messages and statements, including some handwritten notes within each statement section. The documents also include annotations on the statement and speech transcriptions. Notable statements were on topics such as UNAIDS and how to respond to the challenges of the millennium declaration and the AIDS epidemic, the UN role in Iraqi elections, and the “UN today and tomorrow”, which focused on women on the UN agenda. The schedule files provide a detailed breakdown of Ms. Fréchette’s travels and meetings for events such as memorial services for victims of bombing in Nairobi and Tanzania (1998), Swiss Air Flight 111 (1998) and for the staff members who lost their lives in the Baghdad bombing on 19 August 2003. Other schedules detailed Fréchette’s attendance at the Task Force on Kosovo (1999) and the Security Council, which focused on consultations regarding Western Sahara, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2003). The itineraries also revealed meetings with high profile officials like Fidel Castro (2000) and Tun Myat, Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq (2001). 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