SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES MEMBER STATES TO REACH CONSENSUS ON HIS REFORM PROPOSALS BEFORE END OF SESSION, TO BE KNOWN AS 'REFORM ASSEMBLY'

23 September 1997

Press Release
GA/9302/

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES MEMBER STATES TO REACH CONSENSUS ON HIS REFORM PROPOSALS BEFORE END OF SESSION, TO BE KNOWN AS 'REFORM ASSEMBLY'

19970923 Page 10 of Press Release GA/9302 dated 22 September 1997 should begin as follows:

"Sierra Leone was sinking deeper into chaos at the expense of the country's peace, development and democracy, he said. However, even now there was hope that the military would realize the folly of its misadventure and agree to return the country to constitutional rule. In the meanwhile, the continuing efforts of the West African region and Africa generally to end the destructive cycle of military coups in Sierra Leone merited expanded support."

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