Word: ghaly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boutros-Ghali can't keep ahead of the new world disorder...
Aidid also figured prominently in last week's diplomatic developments. His supporters were widely believed to have organized a stone-throwing demonstration against the visit of United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to Mogadishu. The warlord was equally obstreperous at the start of a U.N.-sponsored meeting involving no fewer than 14 feuding Somali factions, held in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. But he and other participants eventually agreed to a cease-fire scheduled to take effect this week and a formal "reconciliation conference" in March...
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...
...second Nuremberg may not be possible, but the U.N. is on a path that could lead to trials. The Security Council last October authorized a commission of legal experts from five countries to document war crimes in Yugoslavia. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said he hoped the process thus begun would end by creating an appropriate court to judge the accused. The expert commission has already received 3,000 pages of testimony on war crimes in Bosnia from governments, aid organizations and individuals, mostly refugees. After analyzing the information, the experts will report to Boutros-Ghali...