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Despite those challenges, when Javier Perez de Cuellar prepared to leave the office in late 1991, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egypt's Deputy Prime Minister and one of the world's better-known diplomats, lobbied hard to be his successor. Boutros-Ghali, now 70, had ambitious ideas -- foremost among them the desire to reshape the cumbersome, inefficient organization and deal aggressively with the problems of a world reinventing itself after the cold war. The U.N. seemed to be the beacon for a new planetary order; he was confident he could lead it in that direction...
...year after taking office, Boutros-Ghali will not admit to disappointment, but it is evident that his ambitions to help shape the architecture of a new world order have run into trouble. Under his stewardship, the U.N. has dramatically expanded its peacekeeping mandate -- only to find itself stymied, even rejected, on several of its recent initiatives. Though the Secretary- General acts at the behest of the Security Council, he is being saddled with much of the blame. Rightly or wrongly, the Secretary-General has, in ^ effect, become the lightning rod for dissatisfaction with the U.N. and, more generally, for widespread...
...pressures on Boutros-Ghali and the U.N. were evident in the scene that unfolded on a freezing New Year's Eve in Sarajevo, his first stop on a tour of peacekeeping trouble spots. When the Secretary-General declared that he was bringing desperate and besieged Bosnians a "message of hope" that peace would come soon, demonstrators jeered and spat at him. Climbing into an armored car, Boutros-Ghali was pursued by one Sarajevan who pushed his face against a window and screamed, "Murderer! Murderer...
...reception was no friendlier at his next stop, Mogadishu. The Secretary- General was forced to flee to a U.S. Marine compound after U.N. headquarters was surrounded by a raucous mob that hurled rocks and garbage. When Boutros-Ghali traveled on to Addis Ababa for the opening of peace talks among Somali faction leaders, Ethiopian demonstrators gathered to protest alleged U.N. support for the secession of the province of Eritrea...
Among the most difficult obstacles ahead on the course for Boutros-Ghali...