The United Nations has announced the death of Boutros Boutros-Ghali, its former secretary-general.
Boutros-Ghali was the UN’s sixth secretary general, serving a single term between 1992 and 1996.
He died at a Cairo hospital after being admitted with a broken pelvis, Egypt’s state news agency said.
His death was confirmed by Rafael Ramirez, Venezuelan ambassador to the UN and current president of the UN Security Council.
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Boutros-Ghali was often jeered, and often waded into crowds to confront protesters when security guards permitted.
“I am used to fundamentalists in Egypt arguing with me,” he told Reuters.
He shocked many in Sarajevo when he said he was not trying to belittle the horros in Bosnia but that there were other Countries where the “total dead was greater than here.”
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Born to a Coptic Christian family in Cairo on 14 November, 1922 in, Boutros-Ghali was educated at Cairo University and in Paris, where he established a lifelong connection with France.
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