Boutros Boutros Ghali, the first Arab politician to be the United Nations Secretary-General, has left our world on Tuesday at the age of 94 after a great domestic and international political career. Ghlai was born in Cairo on November 14, 1922. He returns to a political family as his grandfather, Boutros Ghali took the position of Egypt's Prime Minister from 1908 to 1910. Being raised in a political environment led Ghali to graduate from Cairo's University's Law Faculty in 1946, as well as receiving a PhD in international law from Paris University and diploma in international relations from the Sciences Po in 1949. In 1949, Ghali was appointed as a Professor of International Law and International Relations at Cairo University and then he became the director of the Centre of Research of Hague Academy of International Law from 1963 to 1964. During late Mohamed Answar Al-Sadat era, Ghali's political career had been developed as he was a member of the Central Committee of the Arab Socialist Union from 1974 to 1977. From 1977 to 1991, Ghali was assigned as Egypt's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs before being Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs for several months. Ghali played a pivotal role in the peace agreement concluded between Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. In 1991, Ghali was elected as the UN Secretary-General. During his term in office, Ghali faced a lot of criticism as this period witnessed a number of sensitive issues. Ghaly was blamed in 1994 for the UN's weak role during the Rwandan Genocide, which claimed lives of one million people. In 1996, Egypt and nine other African countries supported the election of Ghali for a second term in the United Nations, but the United States vetoed against the decision to re-elect him for the position. This action made Ghali the first UN Secretary-General not to be elected for a second term. After his UN career, Boutros Ghali was appointed as the Secretary General of La Francophone organization from 1997 to 2002. From 2003 to 2012, Ghali was that Director of the Egyptian National Council of Human Rights. According to the UN official website, Ghali was awarded by 24 doctorates including the law honoris causa from the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow in 1992, doctorate honoris causa from l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris in 1993, an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Laval, Quebec in 1993) and the Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Star Crystal Award for Excellence from the African-American Institute, New York in 1993.
