title: Rémy Gorgé
text: # Rémy Gorgé
  
  Rémy Gorgé (18 June 1923 – 20 December 2015) was a Swiss national whose career in international peacekeeping with the United Nations spanned more than three decades.
  
  He served as senior and Principal Legal Advisor to various United Nations bodies involved in peacekeeping operations (see below) and also undertook numerous special peacekeeping missions on behalf of the incumbent Secretary General at the time; primarily relating to political disturbances in Cyprus, Iraq and Iran and, the Middle East in General (see below).
  
  ## Timeline of Different Roles
  
  1947 Doctor iuris utriusque, magna cum laude University of Berne, Switzerland
  
  1947 International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva
  
  1948-1952 International Refugee Organization, Geneva Legal advisor (1948 – 1950) Deputy General Council (1951 – 1952)
  
  1952 – 1953 Inter-Governmental Committee for European Migration, general Acting General Counsel
  
  1953 – 1956 United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency, New York Senior Legal Adviser (also in charge of chartering and investments)
  
  1956 – 1957 United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (Palestine) Jerusalem Senior Legal Adviser
  
  1958 – 1959 United Nations Emergency Force, Gaza Senior Legal and Political Adviser
  
  1960 Legal Affairs, United Nations Headquarters, New York Senior Legal Officer
  
  1960 – 1963 International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna Senior Legal Adviser
  
  1963 – 1964 United Nations Operations Congo, Leopoldville Principal Legal Adviser and Political Adviser
  
  1965 International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna Senior Legal Officer
  
  1965 – 1971 United Nations Peace-Keeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) Senior Legal and Political Adviser
  
  1971 – 1973 United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, Jerusalem Principal Political Adviser
  
  1973-1974 United Nations Emergency Force, Cairo Principal Political Adviser
  
  1974 - United Nations Peace-Keeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) Senior Political and Legal Adviser
  
  1978 Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Cyprus
  
  1978 – 1981 Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Cyprus
  
  Special Missions
  
  1960 Legal Adviser of the United Nations Tin Conference, New York
  
  1961 Legal Adviser of the United Nations Sugar Conference, Geneva
  
  1962 Legal Adviser to Special Representatives of United Nations Secretary-General at talks between Messrs. Adoula and Tschombe, Leopoldville
  
  1963 Legal Adviser of the United Nations Sugar Conference, London
  
  1964 Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on joint mission with representative of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Burundi, Rwanda and Kivu (Congo)
  
  1965 Legal Adviser at United Nations Tin Conference, New York
  
  1970 Member of Secretariat Mission to Guinea, appointed by the Secretary-General (Cancelled by Government of Guinea before arrival in mission area)
  
  1972 Aide to United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs in consultations with Greek and Turkish Governments
  
  1973 Aide to United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs in consultations with Syrian and Israeli Governments
  
  1974 Aide to United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs at Geneva Conference on Cyprus
  
  1975 – 1980 Number of Missions to Greece and Turkey, accompanying Special Representative of the Secretary-General and, in January 1978, the Secretary-General of the United Nations
  
  1980 – 1981 Peace Missions to Iraq and Iran, accompanying Prime Minister Olof Palme, United Nations Special Representative
  
  1982 Special missions (2) for Secretary-General of the United Nations to Lebanon and Israel during hostilities.
  
  