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AFR/359-SC/7213
15/11/2001
Press Release
AFR/359
SC/7213


PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL, AT PRIVATE COUNCIL MEETING WITH NELSON MANDELA,

THANKS FORMER SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT FOR HIS ROLE IN BURUNDI PEACE PROCESS


Following is the statement by Security Council President Keith D. Knight, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica, on the occasion of the Council’s private meeting today with Nelson Mandela:

SG/SM/8025-AFR/358-OBV/248
14/11/2001
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SG/SM/8025
AFR/358
OBV/248


SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS REVISED INDUSTRIAL POLICIES, DIVERSIFICATION


ARE KEY ELEMENTS IN AFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT


Message to Mark Africa Industrialization Day -– 20 November 2001


This is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of Africa Industrialization Day, 20 November:

PAL/1897
14/11/2001
Press Release
PAL/1897


UNRWA AWARDED KING HUSSEIN FOUNDATION HUMANITARIAN PRIZE


FOR ITS 'TIRELESS EFFORTS' TO PROMOTE PEACE


(Reissued as received.)


AMMAN, 14 November (UNRWA) -- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has won the King Hussein Humanitarian Leadership Prize for its 50 years of services to Palestine refugees and its emergency work in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip over the last 13 months.