Recalls Meeting with Chief Last Week; Calls on All Nigerians to Support Democratic Transition to Early Civilian Rule
The following statement was issued today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
The Nigerian Government has confirmed to me this afternoon the death in Abuja today of Moshood Abiola.
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KAMPALA, Uganda, 25 June (UNFPA) -- Experts on reproductive rights and health from around the world agreed today on actions needed to speed progress towards the goals set by the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994.
Administering Powers Asked to Cooperate; Statements Heard on Current Situations in Guam, United States Virgin Islands
While Peru's Constitution prohibited discrimination, the society's structural discrimination could not be eliminated without temporary special measures, the 23 experts on the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women told representatives from Peru this afternoon.
Dramatic gaps between the situation of urban and rural women in Peru were highlighted as the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women began considering Peru's combined third and fourth periodic reports on implementing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan left New York on Thursday, 25 June, for a European tour during which he spoke at the annual conference of a private foundation in Ditchley, England, and chaired a panel discussion on human rights in Vienna, Austria.
This is the text of a statement today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:
On Monday, 13 July, in Brasilia, Brazil, the Secretary-General of the United Nations begins a five-nation tour in Latin America that will also take him to Uruguay, Argentina, Guatemala and Mexico.
