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International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

• Established by the Convention on Interanational Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention, 1944)
• Relationship Agreement with UN (1947)
  • 8 UNTS 315
• Governing Bodies
  • Assembly, all members, meets every three years
  • Council, 36 members elected for 3 years
• Legal texts
  • Treaties
• Flagship publication
  • ICAO Journal
• Databases
• Library

ICAO Secretaries-General

• 2021- : Juan Carlos Salazar (Colombia)
• 2015-2021 : Fang Liu (China)
• 2009-2015: Raymond Benjamin (France) (Press release ICAO/PIO 01/09)
• 2003-2009: Taïeb Chérif (Algeria)
• 1997-2003: Renato Claudio Costa Pereira (Brazil) (Press release ICAO/PIO 2/97)
• 1991-1997: Philippe H.P. Rochat (Switzerland) (Press release BIO/2585-ICAO/718 [1991])
• 1988-1991: Shivinder Singh Sidhu (India) 
• 1976-1988: Yves Maurice Lambert (France) 
• 1970-1976: Assad Kotaite (Lebanon) (Press release ICAO/571-BIO/770 [1970])
• 1964-1970: Bernard Tieleman Twigt (Netherlands) 
• 1959-1964: Ronald MacAlister Macdonnell (Canada) 
• 1952-1959: Ernst Carl Robert Ljungberg (Sweden) 
• 1944-1951: Albert Roper (France)