7 April 1999
Press Release
SG/SM/6949
HR/CN/898
SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR RENEWED COMMITMENT IN NEW CENTURY TO PROTECT RIGHTS OF MAN, WOMAN, CHILD -- REGARDLESS OF ETHNIC, NATIONAL BELONGING
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Kofi Annan Tells Human Rights Commission 'A United Nations That Will Not Stand Up for Human Rights is a United Nations That Cannot Stand Up for Itself'
Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's address to the Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva today: