Boutros Boutros Ghali


Boutros BoutrosGhali was an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was the sixth SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations from January 1992 to December 1996. An academic and former Vice Foreign Minister of Egypt, BoutrosGhali oversaw the UN at a time when it dealt with several world crises, including the breakup of Yugoslavia and the Rwandan Genocide. He was then the first SecretaryGeneral of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie from November 1997 to December 2002.

Boutros BoutrosGhali was born in Cairo onNovember 1922 into a Coptic Christian family. His father Yusuf Butros Ghali was the son of Boutros Ghali, who was Prime Minister of Egypt from 1908 until he was assassinated in 1910. His mother Safela Mikhail Sharubim was daughter of Mikhail Sharubim , a prominent public servant and historian.

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