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AFR/724-IHA/806
09/10/2003
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AFR/724
IHA/806


DISPLACED PEOPLE CONTINUE TO ARRIVE IN TOTOTA, LIBERIA


NEW YORK, 9 October (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- On Tuesday, 7 October, an inter-agency mission visited Totota and Kakata in Liberia to examine the relocation of internally displaced persons in irregular shelters and assess new population movements into Totota.

SG/SM/8928
08/10/2003
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SG/SM/8928


GLOBAL COMPACT SEEKS SOLUTIONS TO SOCIETAL PROBLEMS, WHILE ENSURING GLOBALIZATION


WORKS FOR ALL, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT U.S. BUSINESS COUNCIL DINNER


Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the dinner hosted by the United StatesCouncil for International Business, in honour of Charles [Chad] Holliday, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dupont, in New York, on 7 October:

SG/SM/8925
08/10/2003
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SG/SM/8925


SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS URGENT ACTION NEEDED TO ENSURE SOCIAL JUSTICE, FURTHER


DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, IN MESSAGE TO CONSULTATIVE MEETING ON BOLIVIA


Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the fifteenth Consultative Group meeting on Bolivia, taking place in Paris from 8 to 9 October, delivered by Carlos Felipe Martinez, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Bolivia:

SG/SM/8924
08/10/2003
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SG/SM/8924


SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES GREEN CROSS FOUNDING PRESIDENT MIKHAIL GORBACHEV

FOR LEADERSHIP, ‘TIRELESS WORK FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE’


Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Green Cross International and Global Green USA, in New York on 7 October:

POP/875
08/10/2003
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POP/875


INVESTMENT IN ADOLESCENTS’ REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CRITICAL TO FIGHTING


POVERTY AND HIV/AIDS, SAYS UNFPA REPORT


LONDON, 8 October (UNFPA) -- Meeting adolescents’ reproductive health needs is an urgent priority in the global fight against poverty and HIV/AIDS, emphasizes The State of World Population 2003 report by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.