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Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (English: / ˈ h æ m ər ʃ ʊ l d / HAM-ər-shuuld, [1] Swedish: [ˈdɑːɡ ˈhâmːarˌɧœld] ⓘ; 29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961.
Vägmärken (Markings, or more literally Waymarks), published in 1963, is the only book by former UN secretary general, Dag Hammarskjöld.The journal was discovered after his death, with a covering letter to his literary executor, "a sort of White Book concerning my negotiations with myself – and with God."
Dag Hammarskjöld was the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving from 1953 until his death in 1961. [7] His tenure was marked by efforts to navigate the complexities of the Cold War, and he played a crucial role in establishing the UN's peacekeeping operations.
Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died in 1961. But questions surrounding his tragic passing in a plane crash, and his ...
The Soviet Union had been pushing to replace the secretary-general with a troika, the three men to be named by each of the Three Worlds of the Cold War. [3] The Soviets recommended that three of the thirteen under secretaries-general be promoted to the troika: Georgi P. Arkadev of the Soviet Union, Ralph Bunche of the United States, and Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan of India.
It consists of the official documents and publications produced the UN System. It is managed and developed by the Dag Hammarskjold Library. The database is regularly updated with the documents and records of the UN General Assembly, Security Council, and the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
On 18 September 1961, a DC-6 passenger aircraft of Transair Sweden operating for the United Nations crashed near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia).The crash resulted in the deaths of all people on board, including Dag Hammarskjöld, the second secretary-general of the United Nations, and 15 others.
When violence erupted in the Congo, Canada set aside an infantry brigade for United Nations use. Dag Hammarskjold refused Canada's offer to send the brigade to the Congo, saying: "If outside help was required to resolve the developing crisis, they preferred non-African states to be used as a last resort".