0 the office or people responsible for the management of an organization, especially an international or political one
1 the office or people responsible for managing an organization, especially a political or international one:
One of the report's recommendations was that a national security secretariat should be set up at the heart of the government.
The administration of the divestiture programme is undertaken by a secretariat, headed by an executive secretary.
The national secretariat contended with a constant lack of money and personnel, and the organisation only received a limited number of national offices.
They suggested that these issues were the responsibility of health secretariats, hospitals, or health insurance managers.
He points out that, during the war, the experts of the treasury and the economic section of the cabinet secretariat wondered likewise.
Then the board members selected the members of presidiums and secretariats.
It has approximately 160 officially appointed independent members, supported by a small, flexible executive secretariat.
The secretariat kept records of the ongoing work and actively assisted the working groups and the steering committee with administrative and organizational support.
It paid all loan servicing, defence and the central secretariat.
