Boutros-ghali assassination

Selection and Appointment of Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Boutros Boutros-Ghali served as the sixth United Nations Secretary-General, from January 1992 to December 1996.

Process in 1991

Nomination of candidates

  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egypt)
  • Bernard Chidzero (Zimbabwe)
  • Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria)

Recommendation of the Security Council

Official documents



Communication of recommendation to the General Assembly

Appointment by the General Assembly



Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali became the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations on 1 January 1992, when he began a five-year term. At the time of his appointment by the General Assembly on 3 December 1991, Mr. Boutros-Ghali had been Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs of Egypt since May 1991 and had served as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from October 1977 until 1991.

Mr. Boutros-Ghali has had a long association with international affairs as a diplomat, jurist, scholar and widely published author. He became a member of the Egyptian Parliament in 1987 and was part of the secretariat of the National Democratic Party from 1980. Until assuming the office of Secretary-General of the United Nations, he was also Vice- President of the Socialist International.

He was a member of the International Law Commission from 1979 until 1991, and is a former member of the International Commission of Jurists. He has many professional and academic associations related to his background in law, international affairs and political science, among them, his

Boutros Ghali

Prime Minister of Egypt (1908–1910)

This article is about the Egyptian politician. For his grandson, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, see Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

Boutros Ghali (12 May 1846 – 21 February 1910; Coptic: ⲠⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥⲄⲁⲗⲓ, Arabic: بطرسغالى; styled Boutros Ghali Bey later Boutros Ghali Pasha) was an Egyptian politician, who served as the Prime Minister of Egypt from 1908 to 1910.

Early life

BBoutros Ghali was born on 12 May 1846[1] to a CopticChristian family in Kiman-al-'Arus, a village of Beni Suef, Egypt, in 1846.[2] His father was Ghali Nayruz, the steward of Prince Mustafa Fazıl Pasha.[2] Boutros Ghali studied Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, English, and French.[2]

Career

After graduation, Ghali became a teacher at the patriarchal school.[2] Ghali's public career began in 1875 with his appointment to the post of clerk in the newly constituted Mixed Court by Sharif Pasha.[3] Next he became the representative of the Egyptian government on the Commis

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