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"Boutros-Ghali" redirects here. For his grandfather, the 20th-century prime minister of Egypt, see Boutros Ghali.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali بطرس بطرس غالي | |
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| Born | 14 November 1922 Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt |
| Died | 16 February 2016 (aged 93) Cairo, Egypt |
| Political party | NDU |
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (14 November 1922 – 16 February 2016) was an Egyptian politician and diplomat who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1992 to 1996. Previously he served as acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt from 1977 to 1979 under President Anwar Sadat, where he helped negotiate the Camp David Accords with Israel, assisting in Egypt's betrayal of Palestine in favour of normalization with Israel. He also served as Secretary-General of Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie from 1997 to 2002 and was director of Egypt's National Council of Human Rights from 2003 to 2012.
United Nations Secretary-General[edit | edit source]
Boutros-Ghali became Secretary-General in 1992 after a vote in November 1991 of 11/15 in which he was championed by France due to his links to the Francophone world. As Secretary-General he oversaw the UN's response to conflicts in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Somalia and Cambodia among others and clashed frequently with the U.S. and its blatant imperialism in these conflicts. Boutros-Ghali aimed to revamp the UN as a stronger peacekeeping force with a standing army to deter conflicts but throughout his tenure he suffered from being ignored by member states and given false promises.[1]
To Statesian politicians Boutros-Ghali was a convenient scapegoat for the humanitarian crises raging across the world and repeatedly called for his head whenever something happened, often resorting to racist attacks. U.S. ambassador to the UN, Madeleine Albright waged a relentless campaign against Boutros-Ghali due to his resistance to the imposition of U.S. imperial hegemony in the post Cold War era and made several false accusations against him. When the vote for Boutros-Ghali's re-election came around, the security council, with the exception of the U.S., voted unanimously for his re-election but when Albright ignored democracy and cast a veto, they elected Kofi Annan to the position instead.[1]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Hella Pick (2016-02-16). "Boutros Boutros-Ghali obituary" The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2024-09-26.