Arthur Lall: Permanent Representative of India to the United
Nations during the years of the Suez crisis.
Sir Brian Urquhart: In July 1945, Mr. Urquhart was appointed
Personal Assistant to Gladwyn Jebb, Executive Secretary of the Preparatory
Commission of the United Nations, and then served for three years, from
March 1946, as Personal Assistant to Trygve Lie. He subsequently joined
the Office of Dr. Ralph Bunche, where he was active in organizing and directing
United Nations peacekeeping operations. In 1960 he was Assistant
to the Secretary-General's Special Representative in the Congo. From 1961
to 1962, he was nominated United Nations Representative in Katanga, Congo. Upon his
return to New York, he worked as Director in the Office of the Under-Secretary-General
for Special and Political Affairs. He was then nominated Assistant Secretary-General,
and in 1974, Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs.
CONGO QUESTION:
Jonathan Dean: United States Consul in Elizabethville, Congo,
from 1962 to 1964.
G. McMurtrie Godley: Deputy Chief of Mission in the Congo
from the Spring of 1961 until 1962. Upon his return to the United States
he worked until 1963 as Director of the Office of Central African Affairs. He was then nominated as United States Ambassador
to the Congo, replacing Edmund Gullion.
Edmund Gullion: United States Ambassador to the Congo from 1961 to 1963
Sture Linner: Chief of the United Nations Operation in the Congo (ONUC) from 1960 to 1961.
In 1962 he was nominated United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative in Greece (1962-64),
Tunisia (1968-71) and Egypt (1973). He was Director of the United Nations Information Centre in the
United Kingdom from 1965 to 1968 and he worked for UNDP in New York as Director of
the Technical Advisory Division from1971 to 1973.
Fou-Tchin Liu: He worked during his entire career at the
United Nations as a Political Affairs Officer. During the United Nations Congo operation,
he was nominated Special Assistant to Ralph Bunche.
Indar Jit Rikhye: He was appointed in 1960 to the position of Military Advisor for
the Congo operations which he held until 1965. Previously, he
had been Commander of the Indian Infantry Brigade Group on the borders of Chian
and Tibet, and from 1958 to 1959 he was Chief of Staff of the United Nations Emergency
Force in Gaza.
George Sherry: He started his careeer at the United Nations as an Interpreter,
and in 1960 he became a Political Affairs Officer within the United Nations Department
of Political and Security Council Affairs. From 1962 to 1963 he acted as
United Nations Representative in Elizabethville, Congo. In 1964, he worked as a Principal
Political Adviser for the ONUC mission.
Jean Paul van Bellinghen: During the Congo crisis, he was
working at the Belgian Embassy in Washington. In 1961 and 1962 he was part
of the Belgian Delegation to the United Nations. Afterwards, he continued
his diplomatic career within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belgium.
Links to other Oral History sites:
Sir Brian Urquhart: "Conversations
with History"
Kofi Annan: "Conversations
with History"
