Reuters, 16/02 17:40 CET
By Michelle Nichols
UNITED NATIONS
(Reuters) – Former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, whose
term was marked by war in the former Yugoslavia, famine and genocide in
Africa and confrontation with the United States, died on Tuesday. He was
93.
The 15-member U.N. Security Council observed a minute’s
silence after the death was announced on Tuesday by Venezuelan U.N.
Ambassador Rafael Dario Ramirez Carreno, head of the Security Council
for February.
An Egyptian, Boutros-Ghali served as U.N. chief from 1992
to 1996. He died at Al Salam Hospital in Cairo on Tuesday, an official
at the hospital said.
As the United Nations’ first secretary-general from
Africa, Boutros-Ghali associated himself with the famine in Somalia and organized the first massive U.N. relief operation in the Horn of Africa
nation.
But success eluded him there and elsewhere as the United
Nations tottered in an increasingly disorderly post-communist world,
with the world body and the big Security Council powers underestimating
the deep animosity behind many conflicts.
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Source: Euronews
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