20 Facts About Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali was an Egyptian politician and diplomat who served as the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1992 to 1996.

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An academic who previously served as acting foreign minister and vice foreign minister of Egypt, Boutros-Ghali oversaw the UN over a period coinciding with several world crises, including the Breakup of Yugoslavia and the Rwandan genocide.

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali went on to serve as the first Secretary-General of La Francophonie from 1997 to 2002.

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali was born in Cairo, Egypt, on 14 November 1922 into a Coptic Orthodox Christian family.

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali received a PhD in international law from the Faculty of Law of Paris and diploma in international relations from Sciences Po in 1949.

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali became President of the Centre of Political and Strategic Studies in 1975 and President of the African Society of Political Studies in 1980.

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali was a Fulbright Research Scholar at Columbia University from 1954 to 1955, Director of the Centre of Research at The Hague Academy of International Law from 1963 to 1964, and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of Paris from 1967 to 1968.

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8.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali was the Honorary Rector of the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, a branch of Kyunghee University Seoul.

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali was a member of the Central Committee of the Arab Socialist Union from 1974 to 1977.

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali served as Egypt's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 1977 until early 1991.

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali then became Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs for several months before moving to the UN.

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali was serving as UN secretary-general when the killings occurred four years later.

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali set three goals: for the UN to be more active in promoting democracy, for the UN to conduct preventative diplomacy to avert crises, and to expand the UN's role as peacekeeper.

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali's reputation became entangled in the larger controversies over the effectiveness of the UN and the role of the United States in the UN.

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US ambassador Madeleine Albright asked Boutros-Ghali to resign and offered to establish a foundation for him to run, an offer that other Western diplomats called "ludicrous".

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali won 14 of the 15 votes in the Security Council, but the sole opposing vote was a US veto.

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Finally, Boutros-Ghali suspended his candidacy, becoming the second Secretary-General ever to be denied re-election by a veto, with Kurt Waldheim being the first.

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From 1997 to 2002, Boutros-Ghali was Secretary-General of La Francophonie, an organisation of French-speaking nations.

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali is buried at Petrine Church in Abbassia, Cairo.

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali received an honorary degree from and Uppsala University.