Ban Ki-moon
Kofi Annan

Deceased (1922–2016)
Boutros Boutros-Ghali/Living or Deceased

The United States, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, became dissatisfied with Boutros-Ghali’s independent leadership and successfully blocked his bid for a second term as secretary-general in 1996; his term ended in December of that year.

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The Clinton administration vetoed the reelection of U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on Tuesday, fulfilling a threat that has isolated the United States in the world body and alienated America from some of its closest allies here.

Guterres’ predecessors as Secretary-General were: Ban Ki-moon (Korea) who served from January 2007 to December 2016; Kofi Annan (Ghana) who held office from January 1997 to December 2006; Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egypt), who held office from January 1992 to December 1996; Javier Pèrez de Cuèllar (Peru), who served from …

Kofi Annan KOFI A. ANNAN
KOFI A. ANNAN of Ghana, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, served from 1997 to 2006 and was the first to emerge from the ranks of United Nations staff.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali was born in Cairo on Nov. 14, 1922. He was a Coptic Christian from a family with deep roots in Egypt’s old aristocracy. He married an Egyptian Jew, Leia Maria Nadler, who is his only immediate survivor.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, an urbane Egyptian diplomat whose service as United Nations secretary general during the early 1990s coincided with genocides from Rwanda to the Balkans as well as political frictions that caused the Clinton administration to block him from a second term, died Feb. 16 at a hospital in Cairo.

Madame Pandit is the first woman president ever elected by a U.N. General Assembly.

Explanation: Boutros Boutros-Ghali, an urbane Egyptian diplomat whose service as United Nations secretary general during the early 1990s coincided with genocides from Rwanda to the Balkans as well as political frictions that caused the Clinton administration to block him from a second term, died Feb.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali with Naela Chohan, Paris 2002. Boutros Boutros-Ghali’s wife, Leia Maria Boutros-Ghali, born Leia Nadler, was raised in an Egyptian Jewish family in Alexandria and converted to Catholicism as a young woman. From 1997 to 2002, Boutros-Ghali was Secretary-General of La Francophonie, an organisation of French-speaking nations.

Boutros-Ghali’s term in office remains controversial. In 1992, he submitted An Agenda for Peace, a suggestion for how the UN could respond to violent conflict. He 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.

His father Yusuf Butros Ghali was the son of Boutros Ghali Bey then Pasha (also his namesake), who was Prime Minister of Egypt from 1908 until he was assassinated in 1910. His mother Safela Mikhail Sharubim was daughter of Mikhail Sharubim (1861–1920), a prominent public servant and historian. Boutros-Ghali graduated from Cairo University in 1946.