6 July 1999
Press Release
SG/SM/7060
SECRETARY-GENERAL TO DECADE FOR NATURAL DISASTER REDUCTION: DESPITE DEDICATED EFFORTS, NUMBER AND COST OF NATURAL DISASTERS CONTINUE TO RISE
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Following are remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the closing of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, delivered at the International Conference Centre of Geneva on 5 July: