Congratulations United Nations for turning 73 years today! A good day to go through here in Journeys of Life all the people who have hold the position of Secretary General of the United Nations.

The original text intended for this article somehow disappeared - in an odd way reflecting the ever changing nature of our world and the politics and conflicts of its countries and other areas. Which the United Nations tries to mediate between. There the Secretary General has of course an important role to play.

So here is a list of them, to be updated as time goes by.

#1 Trygve Lie (1946-1952) Norwegian politician/ – Oslo, Sweden-Norway (1896-1968/72) **#2 **Dag Hammarskjöld (1953-1961) Swedish economist/diplomat – Jönköping, Sweden-Norway (1905-1961/56) **#3 **U Thant (1961-1971) diplomat – Pantanaw, Burma (1909-1974/65) **#4 **Kurt Waldheim (1972-1981) diplomat/politician – Sankt Andrä-Wördern, German-Austria (1918-2007/88) **#5 **Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (1982-1991) diplomat – Lima, Peru (1920-2020/100) **#6 **Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1992-1996) diplomat – Cairo, Egypt (1922-2016/93) **#7 **Kofi Annan (1997-2006) Ghanaian diplomat – Kumasi, Gold Coast (1938-2018/80) **#8 **Ban Ki-moon (2007-2016) diplomat – Eumseong County, South Korea (1944-) **#9 **António Guterres (2017-present) diplomat – Lisbon, Portugal (1949-) Updated 29.8.2021 Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary-General_of_the_United_Nations