Word: ghaly
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...poor nations, but only if the meeting's treaties are developed during the next three years to spell out obligations, goals and monitoring. The price of failure for the world community could be a new cold war between the North and the South, warned U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali...
...fighting in Sarajevo had become intolerable. Accordingly, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali announced that the bulk of U.N. forces in Sarajevo were pulling out. The U.N., he said, simply cannot operate in a place where there is no political will for peace. "Peacekeeping must be based on the agreement of all parties...
Serbian officials pounced on a U.N. report on the situation in Bosnia to back their demand that sanctions be lifted immediately. The report, issued by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, pointed out that Croats were also grabbing Bosnian territory. It suggested that Serb forces in Bosnia and their commander, General Ratko Mladic, were outside the control of the government in Belgrade. The Serbs argued that they were therefore being unjustly blamed...
...leading a second invasion of Iraq? Some Iraqis think so. But this time, they say, the invading force is a flood of counterfeit bank notes -- Iraqi dinars, as well as bogus American $100 bills. In a letter last month to United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Baghdad accused the U.S. of making a bid to undermine Iraq's economy by directing efforts to smuggle in counterfeit money from several neighboring countries, including Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. At home, Iraqis also joke about being able to pick out "Israeli" and "Kurdish" dinars, according to where the notes...
...trying to take over two-thirds of the country." In their campaign to carve out a Greater Serbia and expel Croats and Slavic Muslims, the Serbs have created hundreds of thousands of refugees; Serbs have been pushed out by Croats and Muslims in response. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said it was the largest uprooting of population "in Europe since the Second World...