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Brian Urquhart, Troubleshooter for the U.N., Dies at 101
He was best known for creating and directing the U.N.’s peacekeeping operations in conflict-filled areas around the world.
Brian Urquhart, left, former under secretary general of the United Nations, confers with former President Jimmy Carter at a conference on the Middle East in 1987. Mr. Urquhart advised the U.N.’s first five secretaries general.Credit.Linda Schaefer/Associated Press
Published Jan. 3, 2021Updated Feb. 2, 2021
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 secretaries general while directing peacekeeping operations around the world, died on Saturday at his home in Tyringham, Mass. He was 101. ....

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