FORMER U.N CHIEF BOUTROS-GHALI DIED AT AGE 93

Former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, whose term was marked by war in the former Yugoslavia, famine and genocide in Africa and confrontation with the United States, died on Tuesday. He was 93.
The 15-member U.N. Security Council observed a minute’s silence after the death was announced on Tuesday by Venezuelan U.N. Ambassador Rafael Dario Ramirez Carreno, head of the Security Council for February.



An Egyptian, Boutros-Ghali served as U.N. chief from 1992 to 1996. He died at Al Salam Hospital in Cairo on Tuesday, an official at the hospital said.
As the United Nations’ first secretary-general from Africa, Boutros-Ghali associated himself with the famine in Somalia and organized the first massive U.N. relief operation in the Horn of Africa nation.

Boutros-Ghali came from a wealthy family and his grandfather was Egypt’s prime minister until his assassination in 1910. 
Before the United Nations, he had worked in the administrations of Egyptian presidents Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak.