Resolution A. 839(20)

Adopted on 20 November 1997

(Agenda item 32)

APPOINTMENT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

THE ASSEMBLY,

TAKING NOTE that the Council at its seventy-seventh session (18-22 November 1996) decided by acclamation to renew the appointment of Mr. William Andrew O'Neil as Secretary-General of the Organization, in accordance with Article 22 of the IMO Convention,

APPROVES the renewal of Mr. William Andrew O'Neil's appointment as Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization for a