Word: boutroses
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A critical debate betweennuclear haves and have-notsgot underway today at the United Nations. At issue: whether to extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the 25-year-old pact designed to block the spread of atomic arms.TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonsays the conference pits the major nuclear powers -- the United...
President Clinton traveled with U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince to oversee the transfer of authority for the country's security from American troops to a U.N. peacekeeping force. But what should have been a foreign-policy triumph for the Administration was...
Boutros-Ghali, who is Egyptian, began serving his five-year term as Secretary-General in 1991.
Asked by Pharr what steps students should take if they were interested in entering foreign affairs, Boutros-Ghali encouraged students to be diplomatic and to learn lots of foreign languages for "languages are the common denominator for negotiations."
Boutros-Ghali cut short his final remarks to answer three questions from the audience. Shetty said that during a reception with students Boutros-Ghali was very approachable.