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SG/SM/9948-OBV/494-SOC/NAR/932
21/06/2005
Press Release
SG/SM/9948
OBV/494
SOC/NAR/932

ILLEGAL DRUGS SOUND COLOURFUL, ENTICING, BUT LITTLE MORE THAN ‘TICKETS

 

TO A DEAD END’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN INTERNATIONAL DAY MESSAGE

 


Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, observed 26 June:

SG/SM/9946
21/06/2005
Press Release
SG/SM/9946

IN ADDRESS TO COUNCILLORS OF STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES,


SECRETARY-GENERAL OUTLINES MAIN ISSUES BEFORE SEPTEMBER SUMMIT


Says ‘UN Needs the US and the US Needs the UN’


Following is the text of the address, as delivered, by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the International Councillors of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in New York on 20 June:

SG/SM/9944-AIDS/103
21/6/2005
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SG/SM/9944
AIDS/103

‘LET US SPARE NO EFFORT’ TO ACCELERATE DELIVERY OF LIFE-SAVING PROGRAMMES TO THOSE

 

NEEDING THEM MOST, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS MEETING OF GLOBAL AIDS FUND


Following is the text of a message by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Replenishment Meeting of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Rome, 20 June, delivered by Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS: