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February 17, 2016

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 1st U.N. Secretary-General from Africa, Dies at 93
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And Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the first United Nations secretary-general
from Africa and the first Arab to hold the post, has died in Egypt at
the age of 93. Boutros-Ghali led the U.N. in the 1990s, a time marked by
violence in Rwanda, Bosnia, Somalia and the former Yugoslavia. His
opposition to NATO's bombing campaign in Bosnia angered the United
States. In 1996, then-President Bill Clinton and U.S. representative to
the U.N. Madeleine Albright blocked his renewal, making him the only
U.N. secretary-general to serve only a single term.
Topics:United Nations

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