The office of Secretary-General of the United Nations General Assembly was intended to be speaker position, presiding over and maintaining order over the work of the assembly. This would quickly change under the leadership of Eleanor Roosevelt, who was appointed US Chief Delegate to the assembly by President Garner. Her tenure saw the conflict of the Suez Crisis, or the First Suez War, between the British, French, Egyptians, and Israeli rebels. Roosevelt would soon involve the international community to the situation and pressured all parties to end the conflict. Increasing the importance and power of the position, due to the veto overriding power given to the assembly, restricting the superpowers from controlling international negotiations and policies of the assembly.
Although the peak influence of the Secretary-General has still remained under the leadership of Eleanor Roosevelt, she would resign from the position to serve as US Secretary of State under President Henry Wallace in 1957, due to the close relationship between the two. Future Secretaries-General would implement a policy of maintaining peace by sending in UN Peacekeepers to conflict zones. Intervening where the superpowers may be overstepping or where the conflict may need to be administered by an international coalition. The United Nations had recently seen more involvement due to both the collapse of the United States and the Soviet Union, with the resulting Second Great Depression depriving many countries of economic stability. This would further weaken the UN as member nations pulled their funding in the organization to rehabilitate their economies.
Under the tenure of Secretary-General Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first General Assembly Election was held throughout June to elect delegates to the assembly. Both Sirleaf and the assembly wished for the people of member states to decided on what the functions of the UNshould be doing, so the UN General Assembly and International Assembly would vote in favor of countries voting for delegates to the assembly. While national governments would decide the delegates to the International Assembly. The first election would be held between 10th and 27th of June, although all votes would still be accepted until the end of the year.
More recent activity can be seen under the scandal of Secretary-General Dominique Strauss-Khan, who was found guilty of sexual assault in a court case in France. The resulting leadership election of the Social Democrats chose Mizuho Fukushima as the next Secretary-General. The General Assembly and the International Assembly would also vote on the 26 September 2019 for immediate military intervention in the South African Boer Republic after the discovery of their reproduction of nuclear weapons, the conflict is still ongoing.