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| leader_name = [[António Guterres]]

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| leader_name2 = [[Amina J. Mohammed]]

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The '''United Nations Secretariat''' ({{lang-fr|link=no|Secrétariat des Nations unies}}) is one of the [[United Nations System|six principal organs]] of the [[United Nations]] (UN),<ref name="Organs of the UN">{{cite web |title=Main Organs |url=https://www.un.org/en/sections/about-un/main-organs/index.html |publisherurl-status=Uniteddead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150412155627/https://www.un.org/en/sections/about-un/main-organs/index.html |archive-date=Apr 12, 2015 Nations|access-date=9 April 2015 |datepublisher=18United November 2014Nations}}</ref><ref name="UN Secretariat">{{cite web|title=UN Secretariat|url=https://www.un.org/en/sections/about-un/secretariat/index.html|publisher=United Nations|access-date=9 April 2015|date=18 November 2014}}</ref> The secretariat is the UN's executive arm. The secretariat has an important role in setting the agenda for the deliberative and decision-making bodies of the UN (i.e., the General Assembly, Economic and Social Council, and Security Council), and the implementation of the decision of these bodies. The [[Secretary-General of the United Nations|secretary-general]], who is appointed by the General Assembly, is the head of the secretariat.<ref name="UN Secretariat"/>

The mandate of the secretariat is a wide one. [[Dag Hammarskjöld]], the UN's second secretary-general, described its power as follows: "The United Nations is what member nations made it, but within the limits set by government action and government cooperation, much depends on what the secretariat makes it. It has creative capacity. It can introduce new ideas. It can, in proper forms, take initiatives. It can put before member governments findings which will influence their actions".<ref name="Hammarskjöld1968">{{cite book|author=Dag Hammarskjöld|title=Hammarskjöld: The Political Man|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VuxBAAAAIAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Funk & Wagnalls}}</ref>

The [[United Nations Department of Political Affairs]], which has a role analogous to a [[ministry of foreign affairs]], is a part of the secretariat. So is the [[Department of Peace Operations]]. The secretariat is the main source of economic and political analysis for the General Assembly and Security Council; it administers operations initiated by UN's deliberative organs, operates political missions, prepares assessments that precede peacekeeping operations, appoints the heads of peacekeeping operations, conducts surveys and research, communicates with non-state actors such as media and non-government organizations, and is responsible for publishing all of the treaties and international agreements.<ref name="UN Secretariat" /><ref name="Paul Novosad">{{cite web|last1=Novosad|first1=Paul|last2=Werker|first2=Eric|title=Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat|url=http://wp.peio.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Conf7_Novosad-Werker-03.09.2013.pdf|publisher=Paul Novosad|access-date=9 April 2015|date=9 January 2014|quote=The article by Harvard Business School, researchers, Views the staffing of the Secretariat as a globalized power struggle.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150413011738/http://wp.peio.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Conf7_Novosad-Werker-03.09.2013.pdf|archive-date=13 April 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>United Nations. (2011). Official web site http://www.un.org/en/mainbodies/secretariat/</ref>

* Records of [https://search.archives.un.org/unitedag-nations-executive-office-of-secretary-general-eosg-1946-present011 the United Nations Executive Office of the Secretary-General] at the United Nations of Archives