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SG/SM/9636-GA/10313
6/12/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9636
GA/10313

SECRETARY-GENERAL NOTES UN’S ‘ENDURING SYSTEM-WIDE COMMITMENT TO FAMILIES’

 

AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY COMMEMORATES tenth ANNIVERSARY OF INTERNATIONAL YEAR

 


Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks to the General Assembly on the Tenth Anniversary of the International Year of the Family in New York, 6 December:

SG/SM/9635
06/12/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9635

SECRETARY-GENERAL’s REMARKS TO ANNUAL UN CORRESPONDENTS’ ASSOCIATION DINNER

 


Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the annual dinner of the United Nations Correspondents’ Association (UNCA) on 3 December:


I am delighted and relieved to be back with you all at the UNCA dinner.  It’s been three years since we were last together like this.  It feels more like three decades.

SG/SM/9634-DC/2942
3/12/2004
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SG/SM/9634
DC/2942

IN ADDRESS TO SUMMIT ON MINE-FREE WORLD, SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEDGES


SUPPORT IN IMPLEMENTING STRATEGY FOR NEXT FIVE YEARS


He Also Underlines Need to Keep Mine Victims’ Needs Constantly in Mind


Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address via satellite link-up to the Nairobi Summit on a Mine-Free World today, 3 December 2004: