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In conferences that are completely ad hoc unrelated to an existing international organization, the role of the secretariat is usually limited to providing essential conference services. Sometimes, however, an especially recruited secretariat plays an important substantive role. Thus, the staff of scientists recruited to prepare and help run the UN Conference on the Application of Science and Technology (Geneva 1963) had an important influence on the conference: it gave help in the screening of papers submitted to the conference, wrote summaries and assisted the various panels into which the conference was split up.
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Kaufmann, J. (1996). Secretariats and Conference Diplomacy. In: Conference Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24913-8_7
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