SG/SM/6877
28 January 1999
The Secretary-General welcomes the reports of two major announcements made in Jakarta with regard to the question of East Timor.
* Reissued entirely in English
Following is the text of a statement made by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Conference on Disarmament at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, on 26 January 1999:
The Secretary-General of the United Nations welcomes the decision taken yesterday at the Arusha Regional Summit by Burundi's neighbour countries to suspend the economic sanctions imposed on that country in 1996.