Who is the current Secretary-General of the United Nations?

What United Nations Secretary-General was killed in a plane crash while negotiating a cease-fire in Africa?

Who is the current US ambassador to the United Nations?

United Nations 

Secretaries-General:

Trygve Lie of Norway, 1946-53
Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden, 1953-61 (won posthumous Nobel Peace Prize)
U-Thant of Burma, 1961-71
Kurt Waldheim of Austria, 1972-81
Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru, 1982-92
Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt, 1992-96
Kofi Annon of Ghana, 1997-2006
Ban Ki-Moon of South Korea, 2007-

U.S. Ambassadors to the United Nations:

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1953-60)
Adlai Stevenson (1961-65)
George Bush (1971-73)
Daniel  Moynihan (1975-76)
Andrew Young (1977-79)
Jeanne Kirkpatrick (1981-85)
Madeleine Albright (1993-96)
Richard Holbrooke (1999-2001)
John D. Negroponte (2001–2004)
John Danforth (2004–2005)
Susan Rice (2009-)

Security Council Permanent Members:

China
France
Russia
United Kingdom
United States

Agencies of the United Nations:

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
U.N. International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
World Bank (in Washington, D.C.)
World Health Organization (HQ in Vienna)
International Court of Justice (at The Hague)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)


There are currently 193 countries that are members of the United Nations

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