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OBIT / BOUTROS BOUTROS GHALI
STORY: OBIT / BOUTROS BOUTROS GHALI
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DATELINE: 16 FEBRUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, UN headquarters
16 FEBRUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Pan left, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon walks up to the mic
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nation Secretary-General:
"The late Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, was a respected statesman in the service of his country, Egypt. He was a well-known scholar of international law and brought formidable experience and intellectual power to the task of piloting the United Nations through one of the most tumultuous and challenging periods in its history, and guiding the Organization of the Francophonie in subsequent years. As Secretary-General, he presided over a dramatic rise in UN peacekeeping. He also presided over a time when the world increasingly turned to the United Nations for solutions to its problems, in the immediate aftermath of the cold war."
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
4. Close up, reporter’s notepad
16 FEBRUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nation Secretary-General:
“He showed courage in posing difficult questions to the Member States, and rightly insisted on the independence of his office and of the Secretariat as a whole. His commitment to the United Nations – its mission and its staff -- was unmistakable, and the mark he has left on the Organization is indelible.”
FILE – 3 DECEMBER 1991 – NEW YORK CITY
6. Various shots, Secretary-General Boutros Boutros Ghali’s appointment
FILE – 31 JANUARY 1992 – NEW YORK CITY
7. Various shots, High Level Security Council meeting on an Agenda for Peace
FILE –31 JANUARY 1995 – HAITI
8. Various shots, Boutros Ghali and US President Bill Clinton
FILE – 5 OCTOBER 1995 – NEW YORK CITY
9. Various shots, Pope John Paul II’s visit to the UN
FILE – 22 OCTOBER 1995 – NEW YORK CITY
10. Pan left, UN 50th Anniversary group photo
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (16 Feb) hailed his predecessor, Boutros Boutros Ghali, as a respected statesman who brought “formidable experience and intellectual power to the task of piloting the United Nations through one of the most tumultuous and challenging periods in its history.”
Boutros-Ghali, UN Secretary-General from 1992 to 1996, died at the age of 93.
As Secretary-General, Ban said “he presided over a dramatic rise in UN peacekeeping. He also presided over a time when the world increasingly turned to the United Nations for solutions to its problems, in the immediate aftermath of the cold war.”
Ban said Boutros-Ghali “showed courage in posing difficult questions to the Member States, and rightly insisted on the independence of his office and of the Secretariat as a whole” adding that “the mark he has left on the Organization is indelible.”
A veteran Egyptian diplomat and the first UN chief from Africa, Boutros-Ghali, at the time of his appointment, had been Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs of Egypt since May 1991 and had served as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from October 1977 until 1991.
The sixth United Nations Secretary-General, his term was marked by brutal conflicts in Haiti, Somalia, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, among others. Soon after his inauguration, the Security Council met in its first-ever summit of Heads of State. At their request, Boutros-Ghali authored the report called ‘An Agenda for Peace,’ an analysis on ways to strengthen UN capacity for preventive diplomacy, peacemaking and peacekeeping.
Also during his tenure, he spearheaded UN structural and management reform.
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