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NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS PRESIDENT OF COSTA RICA TO VISIT HEADQUARTERS

22 September 1997


Press Release


NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS PRESIDENT OF COSTA RICA TO VISIT HEADQUARTERS

19970922 ON 23 SEPTEMBER

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Jose Maria Figueres Olsen, President of Costa Rica, will visit Headquarters on Tuesday, 23 September, to address the General Assembly and to confer with Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

At 11:45 a.m., the President and his party will arrive at the Delegates Entrance where he will be received by the Secretary-General. The President will proceed to Conference Room 5 where he will meet with the Secretary- General and the Presidents of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.

After the meeting, the President will leave Headquarters from the Delegates Entrance.

President Figueres Olsen will return to Headquarters at 4:30 p.m. From the Delegates Entrance he will proceed to his delegation's seat in the General Assembly Hall to wait for the invitation of Assembly President Hennadiy Udovenko (Ukraine) to deliver his address.

Following his speech, President Figueres Olsen, accompanied by the Assembly President and the Secretary-General, will proceed to Room GA-200 where they will take leave of him. The President will leave Headquarters from the Delegates Entrance.

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