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Press Release


SG/SM/7065
13 July 1999


Press Release
SG/SM/7065
AFR/154


SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES DEVELOPMENT TOWARDS NATIONAL RECONCILIATION, RULE OF LAW IN GUINEA-BISSAU

19990713 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:

Last Friday, the Military Junta in Guinea-Bissau handed over to the transitional civilian Government the remaining political prisoners it had detained, following the 7 May events.