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SG/SM/7634
20 November 2000


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SG/SM/7634


SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS ROLE OF VOLUNTEERS IN IMPROVING HUMAN CONDITION

20001120

Message for International Volunteer Day Notes Effort Of New Group To Spread Information Technology in Developing Countries

This is the text of the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the observance, on 5 December, of International Volunteer Day:

SG/SM/7632
20 November 2000


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SG/SM/7632


MILITARY OPERATIONS SHOULD NOT BE DESCRIBED AS HUMANITARIAN ACTION, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SYMPOSIUM

20001120

Following is the text of opening remarks made today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to an International Peace Academy Symposium on Humanitarian Action, also attended by Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, Jozias van Aartsen:

SG/SM/7631
20 November 2000


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SG/SM/7631


SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES ACADEMY’S KEY ROLE IN PROMOTING NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT

20001120

Following is the address of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the conference on “The Second Nuclear Age and the Academy”, delivered at John Jay College, City College of New York, on 17 November:

SG/2031/Rev.3*
20 November 2000


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SG/2031/Rev.3*
BIO/3053/Rev.3*


KOFI A. ANNAN, UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL

20001120 Biographical Note

Kofi Annan of Ghana is the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. The first Secretary-General to be elected from the ranks of United Nations staff, he began his term on 1 January 1997.

SG/SM/7630
17 November 2000


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SG/SM/7630
AFR/275


SECRETARY-GENERAL'S MESSAGE FOR AFRICA INDUSTRIALIZATION DAY

20001117

Following is the text of a statement from Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of Africa Industrialization Day (20 November):