Background
Ivan Krno was born in 1891 in Myjava was a Slovak lawyer and diplomat serving for the inter-war Czechoslovakia.
Ivan Krno was born in 1891 in Myjava was a Slovak lawyer and diplomat serving for the inter-war Czechoslovakia.
Studied law and diplomacy U. Budapest, U. Paris.
After the establishment of Czechoslovakia as an independent state following the First World War, Kerno began to work for the Czechoslovak legation in Paris. In 1928 he joined the secretariat of the League of Nations in Geneva. Upon the establishment of the United Nations following the Second World War, Kerno became Assistant to Secretary-General Trygve Lie and was in charge of the Legal Department.
Between 1946 - 1952 he held the post of the first legal councilor of the United Nations and the deputy of the United Nations Secretary General for legal matters.
After February 1948 and the communist coup d"etat in Czechoslovakia, he remained living in the United States of America. Doctor Kerno died 17 April 1961, in Long Island, New New York
Member cabinet of secretary Member political; member of advisory group on administrative