Ques: Recently the former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali passed away. He served united nation as-
(a) Fifth Secretary-General
(b) Sixth Secretary-General
(c) Seventh Secretary-General
(d) Eighth Secretary-General
Ans (b)
Related facts:
- On 16 February 2016 former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali passed away in Cairo, Egypt. He was 93.
- He was an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was thesixth Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) from January 1992 to December 1996.
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the first United Nations secretary-general from Africa and the first Arab to hold the post was also the first to serve only one term in the post.
- During his tenure there was a great famine in Somalia that times the first large-scale UN assistance program led by the United Nations.
- During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, he was criticized for the UN’s failure to prevent the massacre
- He wrote a report in 1992 named “An Agenda for Peace,” a proposal for how the U.N. could respond to and prevent conflict.
Reference:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35590039
http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/boutros-boutros-ghali-dies-at-93-united-nations/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boutros_Boutros-Ghali