Word: ghali
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That said, there is a U.N. bureaucracy, and it is responsible for its actions. So when Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali went to Sarajevo two years ago and called the Balkan conflict a "rich man's war," it is perfectly appropriate to call him a blithering idiot--the blame is his alone. Similarly, when U.N. envoy Akashi or U.N. General Rose talk like the Serbs are just another warring faction, rather than the aggressor, we can justifiably accuse them of moral cowardice...
...Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, launching an international summit on AIDS in Paris, declared a "planetary emergency" and said all countries should "act without delays" to stop the epidemic. The subtext of his speech -- and of the World AIDS Day conference -- was that AIDS research dollars and supplies should be diverted to poorer countries where the largest number of AIDS sufferers reside. (More than 90 percent of AIDS funding winds up in wealthy nations, which have only 8 percent of the victims, the U.N. estimates.) The response: representatives of 42 nations signed a declaration aiming to improve access to health...
United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali opened a three-day conference in Naples, Italy with a plea to law-enforcement officials from 138 nations to develop a global plan to combat growing international organized crime -- including more sophisticated police networks and legal systems for younger democracies. "In Europe, in Asia, in Africa and in America, the forces of darkness are at work and no society is spared," he said. But Attorney General Janet Reno and delegates from Britain, Australia and other countries immediately shot the idea down as too ambitious, saying countries should focus on national laws. Still, Russian...
...some of the former republics of Yugoslavia, including Bosnia. This recognition transformed a civil war into an international conflict. America is surely the last country in the world to deny captive peoples the right to go their own way. But the process has got out of hand. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the Secretary-General of the United Nations (you know about the United Nations; it's close to what you hoped the League of Nations would be) puts the problem precisely: "If each minority will ask for self-determination, rather than 184 nations around the world, we may have...
...grave 78 miles from Rwanda's capital of Kigali. The corpses are believed to be Tutsi murdered by the majority Hutu during the recent three-month civil war -- and just a fraction of the half-million thought dead. The find increases the pressure on U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to set up a war-crimes tribunal for the perpetrators before the surviving Tutsi -- who won the war -- take matters into their own hands...