The former United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has died in Cairo at the age of 93. He had recently been admitted into hospital.
The Egyptian took the helm during one of the most challenging periods in the UN's history in the early 1990s, as the world struggled to deal with the aftermath of the Cold War.
News of his death was announced at the UN Security Council by its president for February, the Venezuelan UN Ambassador Rafael Dario Ramirez Carreno..
It promptly held a minu…
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