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SECRETARY-GENERAL’s remarks to Group of 77 meeting in sao paolo

This is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Saturday (12 June) at a special ministerial meeting of the “Group of 77” developing countries in Sao Paulo, Brazil:

Meeting of States Parties                                  

 to Law of Sea Convention                                  

FOURTEENTH MEETING OF STATES PARTIES TO CONVENTION

ON LAW OF THE SEA AT HEADQUARTERS, 14-18 JUNE

To Consider Budget of International Tribunal, Receive Information about Work

Of International Seabed Authority, Commission on Limits of Continental Shelf

The fourteenth meeting of States parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea will be held at Headquarters from 14 to 18 June. 

Security Council                                           

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(Reissued as received.)

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