Press Release
SG/SM/7538
ACCEPTING GIFT FROM FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA, SECRETARY GENERAL PRAISES ITS COURAGE AND CHARACTER
20000908Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, delivered on his behalf by the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Bernard Miyet, on the presentation of a gift from the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, in New York on 8 September: