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Press Release
SG/SM/7117

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY RELIEVED TO LEARN OF RELEASE FROM PRISON OF TWO CARE (AUSTRALIA) WORKERS

2 September 1999


Press Release
SG/SM/7117


SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY RELIEVED TO LEARN OF RELEASE FROM PRISON OF TWO CARE (AUSTRALIA) WORKERS

19990902

The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary General was deeply relieved to learn of the release yesterday from prison of Steve Pratt and Peter Wallace, two of the three CARE (Australia) relief workers who had been convicted by the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 29 May 1999 of passing on secret information. He welcomes the decision of the Yugoslav Government to grant their release on humanitarian grounds. It is also his hope that the remaining CARE (Australia) worker still in custody, Branko Jelen, will also be released soon.

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