Word: ghali
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boutros-Ghali's Challenge...
When Egypt's Boutros Boutros-Ghali became Secretary-General of the United Nations on New Year's Day, he hit the ground running. He'd better not slow down, because never in its 47-year history has the world body had so much to do in so many areas of the globe...
...even begun to change in a way that will allow it to take advantage of the revolution in world politics. Boutros-Ghali is like a chief executive officer taking over a corporation in danger of Chapter 11: it has vast assets and a line of products everyone wants -- peace, health and prosperity -- but a bottom line that hovers near bankruptcy. The U.N. is overstaffed, underfunded and mismanaged. Its activities are often badly conceived, wasteful and hobbled by petty politics...
...Boutros-Ghali's predecessor, Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru, retired with well-earned praise for his achievements as a peacemaker. He accepted the Nobel Prize for his peacekeeping forces in 1988, but his stewardship of the U.N. was flawed. He resented and resisted suggestions for change, taking them as personal criticisms. His most serious shortcoming during his decade in office was his unwillingness to bring the U.N. bureaucracy under control...
...Canada's ambassador to the U.N., says the organization suffers from "overlapping mandates" among its different agencies. A single water project in Africa, for example, might have six agencies vying for control. "We've witnessed some appalling turf wars," says Fortier. To avert future battles, he urges Boutros-Ghali to "commandeer the system and make sure that the barons are not always getting in each other's way and trying to outdo sister agencies." Last month the General Assembly took a first step to control duplication and infighting among humanitarian aid programs by calling for the appointment of a high...