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SG/SM/6923
12 March 1999


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SG/SM/6923


SECRETARY-GENERAL, EXPRESSING GREAT SADNESS AT DEATH OF YEHUDI MENUHIN DESCRIBES HIM AS 'CITIZEN OF THE WORLD IN FULLEST SENSE'

19990312 The following was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General, who learned with great sadness this morning of the death of Lord Menuhim, has issued the following statement:

SG/SM/6919
8 March 1999


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SG/SM/6919
WOM/1113


VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN 'MOST SHAMEFUL', PERVASIVE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN REMARKS ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

19990308 Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Inter-Agency Videoconference for a World Free of Violence against Women, in New York on 8 March:

SG/SM/6916
5 March 1999


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SG/SM/6916


SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP OF LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL

19990305

Following are remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the twenty- first Annual Lions Day with the United Nations, in New York on 5 March:

Thank you for those kind words. It is incredible to have so many Lions in one room. I am a tiger myself, in that I was born in the year of the tiger.