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Focal administrative center of a regional or international/intergovernmental organization
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The
secretariat
of an international organization is the department that fulfils its
central administrative
or
general secretary
duties. The term is especially associated with
governments
and
intergovernmental organizations
such as the
United Nations
, although some
non-governmental organizations
(for example, the
International Organization for Standardization
[1]
[2]
) also refer to their administrative department as their secretariat. The building or office complex that houses such a department may also be referred to as its secretariat or secretariat building.
Most secretariats of international organizations operate on the principal of extra-territoriality which means the staff are not - in their workplace - governed by the laws of the countries in which they are situated. This means the staff are governed by the staff regulations and this situation plus the requirement of most international organizations that the secretariats are multi-national in composition creates bureaucratic and administrative problems.
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In some cases, the secretariat is not a bureaucratic organ, but one which includes a certain organization run by all its members who collectively help to organize the larger group, such as the secretariat of the
International of Anarchist Federations
, which is an office that rotates irregularly between its member federations.
The
Zhongshu Sheng
or simply the Secretariat was one department in the
Three Departments and Six Ministries
structure in the
history of China
.
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