Brian Urquhart, a troubleshooting British diplomat who joined the United Nations at its birth in 1945 and over the next four decades was a chief aide to five...
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Sir Brian Urquhart, who has died aged 101, was best known as the principal architect of the United Nations' peacekeeping activities.
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UN icon Sir Brian Urquhart was at the “centre of formative global events”, Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement on Sunday.
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Brian Urquhart, a Briton who had served the UN from its founding, across decades of global upheaval, died on Jan. 2, 2021, at 101 years old.
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SIR BRIAN URQUHART, a veteran international civil servant who helped guide the United Nations from its inception through decades of dramatic challenges,...
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Sir Brian Urquhart, who celebrates his 94th birthday in February, is a living chronicle of a large chunk of 20th-century history.
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Ralph Bunche, who was usually sparing with praise, once described Dag Hammarskjöld as “the most remarkable man I have ever seen or worked with…
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A long-serving UN official who went on to become a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate for his efforts to bring peace and stability to the Middle East.
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Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the independent state of the Congo, was effectively in power for only ten weeks, but he has become a figure of...
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Sir Brian Urquhart, who celebrates his 94th birthday in February, is a living chronicle of a large chunk of 20th-century history.
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