Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Michelle Otero, a South Valley resident, wrote a personal statement on Boutros Boutros-Ghali, (died Feb. 16) who had served as secretary general of the United Nations. “I admire you for standing up to the United States. It couldn't have been easy,” Otero wrote in part. Albuquerque's first poet laureate, ...

The UN Secretary General at the time (Egyptian Boutros Boutros-Ghali) was being manipulated by France which was at the same time funding the genocidal regime,” he said. Nkuranga noted that “genocide cannot happen without the help of government and a powerful country.” He also called on UN to ...

And that is why, disregarding the support of a vast majority, Boutros Boutros-Ghali gave yet another lesson of common sense and sense of timing when he accepted to be replaced by a civil servant from the United Nations who met all terms and conditions due to his recognized undertaking of the tasks that ...

The last decade has been marked by increasing skepticism as to the viability, and indeed effectiveness, of the state-centric, liberal assumptions and frameworks that have informed the practice and expansion of peacebuilding. Ever since its introduction by Boutros Boutros-Ghali's “An Agenda for Peace,” ...

Outspoken Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali used his powers in the Charter to raise issues with the Security Council and General Assembly – and was promptly barred from a second term in office by a US veto. Incumbents have since been cautious about using this prerogative – which can only be ...

The report criticsed Egyptian politician Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the then UN Secretary-General, for failure to act on a warning of the risk of genocide sent by the head of the peacekeepers in Kigali. “Each part of that system, in particular the Secretary-General, the Secretariat, the Security Council and the ...

And that's zero out of nine male UN chiefs: Trygve Lie of Norway, Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden, U. Thant of Burma (now Myanmar), Kurt Waldheim of Austria, Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru, Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt, Kofi Annan of Ghana, Ban Ki-moon of South Korea and, currently, Antonio Guterres ...

Kofi Annan's political career really took off when UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali made him Assistant Secretary-General in the peacekeeping department and later promoted him to Under-Secretary-General and head of UN peacekeeping. This was historic because that important part of the ...