The U.N. Security Council has announced the death of former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
Venezuela’s U.N. Ambassador Rafael Ramirez, the current council president, made the announcement at the start of a meeting on Yemen’s humanitarian crisis Tuesday and asked members to rise for a moment of silence.
The 15 council members stood in silent tribute.
Boutros-Ghali, an Egyptian politician and diplomat, was the sixth secretary-general of the United Nations, serving from January 1992 to December 1996.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
A highly respectable statesman, with a long family history of great ancestral pedigree. His grandfather was the first and only Christian to be the prime minister of Egypt(1908-1910). His grandfather was assassinated by Islamists.
Well now Obama has a choice – he can be head of UN or SC Justice. Which one will satisfy his ego? And what a coincidense!