6 February 1998
Press Release
SG/SM/6456
GA/COL/2975
SECRETARY-GENERAL, OPENING MEETING OF DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE, SAYS GOAL OF ERADICATING COLONIALISM BY YEAR 2000 SHOULD GUIDE ITS WORK
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Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the meeting of the Committee on the Situation with Regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, in New York on 6 February: