LA DéMOCRATIE EST MENACéE PAR LE TOTALITARISME

Ex-UN chief pleads for French in world bodies
(Reuters; 11/05/98)

By Robert Evans GENEVA, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Former United Nations chief Boutros Boutros-Ghali said on Thursday global democracy could be threatened by a new totalitarianism if world organisations came to be dominated by one language.

Boutros-Ghali was speaking at the opening of a symposium called by the International Organisation of Francophony of which he is now Secretary-General, on "plurilingualism" in U.N. agencies and other world bodies.

"If all states had to speak the same language, think in the same manner, act in the same way, there would be a great risk of seeing a box."