ABSTRACT
The Egyptian was a largely successful secretary-general of the United Nations and he won much support for his actions and leadership. He was politically astute in working closely with Britain, France and Russia on the Bosnia conflict. The Ghanaian under-secretary-general for peacekeeping, Kofi Annan, and some of his key officials within the UN secretly worked with Washington as it plotted the removal of Boutros-Ghali. Boutros-Ghali continued much of the norm-promotion work he had pursued at the UN through the Francophonie: democracy, development and human rights. Boutros-Ghali was buried in a crypt at the Boutrosiya family church alongside his grandfather after whom he had been named, and with whom he shared a stubborn devotion to public service, in the true spirit of noblesse oblige. The chapter concludes the biography of Boutros Boutros-Ghali by analysing the legacy of one of the African and Arab world’s most prominent scholar-diplomats, who died in Cairo on 16 February 2016.
