Arrange the following Secretaries-General in chronological order of their service:
1- Kofi Annan
2- Trygve Lie
3- U Thant
4- Ban Ki-moon
Choose the correct answer from the given options:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option 1: 2, 3, 1, 4
2- Trygve Lie
3- U Thant
1- Kofi Annan
4- Ban Ki-moon
UN Secretary Generals in chronological order:
- Trygve Lie (1946-1952), Norway.
- Dag Hammarskjöld (1953-1961), Sweden.
- U Thant (1961-1971), Burma (Myanmar).
- Kurt Waldheim (1972-1981), Austria.
- Javier Perez de Cuellar (1982-1991), Peru.
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1992-1996), Egypt.
- Kofi A. Annan (1997-2006), Ghana.
- Ban Ki-moon (2007-2016), Republic of Korea (South Korea).
- António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres (2017-), Portugal.