Boutros Boutros-Ghali (born the November 14th 1922, in Arab: بطرسبطرسغالي) was General secretary of UNO of January 1992 until December 1996.

Boutros-Ghali was born with the Cairo, in Egypt, in a family of Christian Copte S. It obtained a license in right of the Université of Cairo in 1946 and a Doctorat in international right of the Université of Paris and the diploma of the Institut of political studies of Paris in 1949. The same year he becomes international law professor and of international relations at the university of Cairo, a station which he occupies until in 1977. In 1965 he becomes president of the Egyptian Company of international law, and in 1975 president of the Center of political and strategic studies (Al-Ahram). Of 1954 with 1955 he was the recipient of a research grant Fulbright to the Université Columbia, he was also director of the Research center of the Academy of international law of $the Hague of 1963 with 1964, and professor invited to the Faculty of Law of the university of Paris of 1967 to 1968.

Defender of the third world, he is Egyptian Minister for the foreign affairs of 1977 until in 1991. He then takes the post of Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the foreign affairs at the United Nations. Then Foreign Minister, it is with his Israeli counterpart Moshe Dayan, one of the chief negotiators of the Israeli-Arab peace agreements signed by Anouar el-Sadate and Menahem Begin in 1979.

He is elected at the position of secretary general of UNO on January 1st 1992. One will retain his contribution essential with the doctrines of the preventive diplomacy: the Diary for Peace. But one reproaches him the two failures of the U.N. force in Yugoslavia, with the Rwanda and the the Western Sahara. It is replaced by Kofi Annan in 1996.

It is named General secretary of the francophonie of 1997 with 2002, thus concretizing its diplomatic proximity with France on the international scene. He is vice-president of the High council of the francophonie

He was hospitalized in May 2006 at the hospital of the Valley-of-Grace to Paris where he underwent medical examinations following a faintness.

In April 2007, he sees himself granting an honorary doctorate on behalf of the university of Quebec to Chicoutimi (Saguenay, Quebec, Canada). He takes an active part still in work of UNESCO, and in particular in the Talks of XXIe century, directed by Jerome Bindé.

External bonds

• Boutros Boutros-Ghali on Channel Academy