Miscellaneous

Press Release
SG/2019
L/2746

The following was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali:

At 4 p.m. Friday, 20 October, the Secretary-General met the President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari. The Secretary-General thanked the President for his support and presence in New York to attend the Special Commemorative Session of the General Assembly marking the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations.

The Secretary-General and President Ahtisaari reviewed the financial crisis of the United Nations.

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Biographical Note: Boutros Boutros-Ghali became the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations on 1 January 1992, when he began a five-year term. At the time of his appointment by the General Assembly on 3 December 1991, Mr. Boutros-Ghali had been Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs of Egypt since May 1991 and had served as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from October 1977 until 1991.