Abstract:
During a debate in the UN Security Council in 2011, the Chinese Permanent
Representative Li Baodong demanded that the peacekeeping operations of
the organisation ‘should adhere to the Hammarskjöld principles’. On the
occasion of a United Nations Day event the same year, the Cyprus Foreign
Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis praised Dag Hammarskjöld as ‘the dove
of preventive diplomacy’. Finally, when Pope Francis addressed the 2015
UN General Assembly, the only former Secretary-General he mentioned by
name was Dag Hammarskjöld3. These are a few examples that testify to the
lasting legacy he created during his eight years in office (1953-1961).
