5th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1920-2020)
He ran the United Nations through the Cold War's endgame — the decade when the Soviet Union pulled out of Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran burned through a million lives, and the Gulf lit up on live television. Pérez de Cuéllar's two terms as secretary-general put him in the room for nearly every frozen conflict that started to crack open between 1982 and 1991.
Pérez de Cuéllar was a Peruvian diplomat who became the UN's fifth secretary-general in 1982, just as the Cold War's final act began. Over the next nine years he worked the Iran–Iraq War, tried to untangle Cyprus and Western Sahara, helped negotiate Namibian independence under the Tripartite Accord, and watched the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Gulf War and the opening shots of Croatia's independence war closed out his tenure in 1991. He returned to Peru and served a single year as prime minister from 2000 to 2001. He died in Lima in 2020 at 100.
Sourced, dated quotes from Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Some 500,000 scientists all over the world are devoting their knowledge to the search for weaponry more sophisticated and more deadly.
It is ironic that the accumulation of arms is one of the few expanding industries in a period of economic depression and gloom.
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