Traduction de «the secretary » (Anglais → Français) :

Where the Secretary-General is prevented from exercising his functions, or where the post is vacant, they shall be exercised by the Deputy Secretary-General present with the highest grade or, in the event of equal grade, by the Deputy Secretary-General with the greatest seniority in the grade or, in the event of equal seniority, by the eldest or by an official designated by the Commission.

- a directorate general for administrative, staffing, budgetary, security and communication and information system matters working in the EEAS framework managed by the executive Secretary-General. The High Representative shall appoint, in accordance with the normal rules of recruitment, a Director General for budget and administration who shall work under the authority of the High Representative. He shall be responsible to the High Representative for the administrative and internal budgetary management of the EEAS. He shall follow the same budget lines and administrative rules as applicable in the part of Section III of the EU budget whi ...[+++]ch falls under Heading V of the Multiannual Financial Framework;

with respect to temporary staff appointed to the post of deputy secretary-general or director, by the bureau, acting on a proposal by the secretary-general, as regards application of Articles 11, 17, 33 and 48 of the CEOS; as regards the other provisions of the CEOS, by the president, acting on a proposal from the secretary-general;

with respect to deputy secretaries-general and directors, by the bureau, acting on a proposal from the secretary-general, as regards application of Articles 29, 30, 31, 40, 41, 49, 50, 51, 78 and 90(1) of the Staff Regulations; by the president, acting on a proposal from the secretary-general, as regards application of the other provisions of the Staff Regulations, including Article 90(2);

Even in the few months that have passed since this year began, according to Mr Egeland, the UN Vice-Secretary-General with responsibility for Darfur, over 200 000 people have been driven from their homes and over 96 villages have been burned to the ground – and all this over a year since international action was taken with the intention of putting a stop to this sort of thing. This goes to show how incredibly feeble the international community is where Darfur is concerned, and the fact that the UN’s Vice-Secretary-General was prevented from travelling into the crisis zone in the first place shows that the Khartoum regime is quite blatantly defying and cold-shouldering the international community and thereby making of it a laughing stock.

I noted that when the American Secretary of State, Mr Colin Powell, whom I much respect and admire, was undertaking his hearings in Congress before he was confirmed as Secretary of State, he made a powerful case – I may not be using exactly the same words he used, but similar ones – against knee-jerk sanctions and against always trying to secure one's political objectives by cutting people off through sanctions.