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• Position: Excerpts from statements by United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Proudly displaying a poster-sized proclamation, New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins declared 14 September 1992 as Boutros Boutros-Ghali Day, an unprecedented one-time holiday in honour of the sixth UN Secretary-General. "Like all New Yorkers, I am terribly proud that the world's greatest hope for peace makes its home in our city", said Mayor Dinkins, after making the presentation to Mr. Boutros-Ghali during a reception at Gracie Mansion to mark the occasion.

"Your presence lends us great prestige - your everyday activities are a cornerstone of our economy - and you enrich our cultural life immeasurably", he said, adding that the City was hard at work on plans to help celebrate in 1995 the fiftieth anniversary of the UN.

Mr. Dinkins, the first African-American Mayor of New York City, added that Mr. Boutros-Ghali, the first Secretary-General from the African continent, was "the ideal man to bridge the gap between the...