UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali dies - Rest in Peace
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (14 November 1922 – 16 February 2016) was an Egyptian politician and diplomat who became the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) from January 1992 to December 1996. Prior to that he had been Vice Foreign Minister of Egypt, Boutros Boutros-Ghali oversaw the UN during the Earth Summit in 1992 which agreed Agenda 21, the Rio Declaration, two conventions on Biological Diversity and Climate Change and the Forest Principles. At the Earth Summit he said that "the route is now marked out," Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said in a blunt farewell to an audience that included several of the 118 heads of state and government who had journeyed here. "Today we have agreed to hold to present levels the pollution we are guilty of. One day we will have to do better -- clean up the planet." During his term he would have to deal with several world crises. This included the break-up of Yugoslavia and the Rwandan Genocide. In...