As the vote in the Security Council approached, the UK ambassador, Sir David Hannay, was increasingly critical of the secretary-general. ‘The French, with the assistance of Boutros-Ghali, will be going into high gear to massage the resistance and isolate those, such as New Zealand and Canada, who have the strongest objections.’ It was astonishing, he cabled London, ‘that the Secretary-General should be turning a deaf ear to the misgivings of his Force Commander’.
