Former UN Secretary Chief Dies At 93

KABUL: (MEP) Former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has passed away at the age of 93, the United Nations Security Council announced on Tuesday.

The announcement was made at the start of a meeting on Yemen’s humanitarian crisis by Venezuela’s UN Ambassador Rafael Ramirez, the current council president, before asking members to rise for a moment of silence.

Born in November 14, 1922, in Cairo, Boutros-Ghali studied in the Egyptian capital and Paris and became an academic specialising in international law.

He led the UN during the period that saw genocide in Rwanda, civil war in Angola, the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia – all of this amidst increasingly stormy relations between the US and the UN.

Boutros-Ghali was the sixth secretary-general of the United Nations, serving from January 1992 to December 1996.

In his farewell speech to the UN, Boutros-Ghali said he had thought when he took the post that the time was right for the UN to play an effective role in a world no longer divided into warring Cold War camps.