UN System Documentation

Universal Postal Union (UPU)

• 1874: established by the Treaty of Bern as the General Postal Union
• 1878: renamed Universal Postal Union
• Relationship Agreement with UN (1948)
  • 19 UNTS 219
• Governing Bodies
  • Universal Postal Congress
    • Meets every five years
  • Council of Administration (CA)
    • Meets every year
  • Postal Operations Council (POC)
    • Technical body that meets as required
• Legal texts
• Statistics
• Directors-General
  • 2022- :  Masahiko Metoki (Japan)
  • 2012-2021 : Bishar A. Hussein (Kenya)
  • 2008-2012: Edouard Dayan (France)
  • 1995-2008: Thomas E. Leavey (United States of America)
  • 1985-1994: Adwaldo Cardoso Botto de Barros (Brazil)
  • 1975-1984: Mohamed Ibrahim Sobhi (Egypt)
  • 1973-1974: Anthony Hubert Ridge (United Kingdom)
  • 1967-1973: Michel Rahi (United Arab Republic)
  • 1961-1966: Edouard Weber (Switzerland)
  • 1950-1960: Fritz Hess (Switzerland)
  • 1945-1949: Alois Muri (Switzerland)
  • 1938-1944: Reinhold Furrer (Switzerland)
  • 1925-1937: Evaristo Garbini-Nerini (Switzerland)
  • 1920-1925: Camille Decoppet (Switzerland)
  • 1899-1919: Eugene Ruffy (Switzerland)
  • 1892-1899: Edmond Hohn (Switzerland)
  • 1874-1892: Eugene Borel (Switzerland)