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U Thant

UN Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971

In this Burmese name, U is an honorific, not a given name.

Thant (Burmese: သန့်; MLCTS: san.[θa̰ɰ̃]; 22 January 1909 – 25 November 1974), known honorifically as U Thant (),^[a] was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first non-Scandinavian as well as Asian to hold the position. He held the office for a record 10 years and one month.^[b]

A native of Pantanaw, Thant was educated at the National High School and at Rangoon University. In the days of tense political climate in Burma, he held moderate views positioning himself between fervent nationalists and British loyalists. He was a close friend of Burma's first Prime Minister U Nu and served in various positions in Nu's cabinet from 1948 to 1961. Thant had a calm and unassuming demeanor that won his colleagues' respect.

He was appointed Secretary-General in 1961, six weeks after his predecessor, Dag Hammarskjöld, had died in an air crash. In his first term, Thant facilitated negotiation

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U Thant’s Appointment as Secretary General of the United Nations

U Thant, Adlai Stevenson, and President Kennedy outside UN Headquarters in New York.

On November 30, 1962, the United Nations voted unanimously to appoint 53-year-old Burmese diplomat U Thant to a full four-year term as Secretary General of the United Nations. The vote in the General Assembly was 109 to 0, with Honduras absent.¹

The “U” was not his given name, as such. As his grandson explains: “‘U’ is an honorific in Burmese, roughly equivalent to ‘Mister’ and traditionally denoting a gentleman of some rank.” Respected for his tough neutralism, and marveled for a poker face that the wife of a leading diplomat likened to an “inscrutable Buddha,” and known for a fondness for smoking cheroot and imbibing daiquiris, Thant had played a crucial role in the settlement of the Cuban Missile Crisis and had long been involved in the increasingly deep involvement of the United Nations in the Congo. But for over a year his official title had been Acting Sec

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U Thant

U Thant (22 January 1909 – 25 November 1974) was a Burmesediplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1961 to 1971. He was chosen after his predecessor Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in a plane crash in September 1961.

"U" is a word in Burmese, roughly equal to "Mister." "Thant" was his only name. In Burmese he was known as Pantanaw U Thant. His home town is Pantanaw, so this means "Mr Thant of Pantanaw"

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When U Nu became the Prime Minister of the newly independent Burma, he asked Thant to join him in Rangoon and appointed him as Director of Broadcasting in 1948. In the following year he was appointed Secretary to the Government of Burma in the Ministry of Information. From 1951 to 1957, Thant was Secretary to the Prime Minister. He also took part in a number of international conferences and was the secretary of the first Asian-African summit in 1955 at Bandung, Indonesia which gave birth to the Non-Aligned Movement.

From 1957 to 1961, he was Burma's Permanent Representative (Ambassador) to the Uni