Secretary-General: Press Release

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SG/SM/7478

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES UN ROLE IN FIGHTING CHILD LABOUR, INCREASING LITERACY, PROMOTING WOMEN’S EQUALITY AND COMBATING HIV/AIDS

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks yesterday at Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany:

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SG/SM/7477
SEA/1684

SECRETARY-GENERAL HOPES MORE AND MORE PARTIES WILL MAKE USE OF INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR LAW OF SEA

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement today at the official opening of the Headquarters Building of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany:

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SG/SM/7476

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPALLED BY AMBUSH OF JORDANIAN PEACEKEEPERS IN SIERRA LEONE

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

The Secretary-General is appalled to learn that United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) troops from the Jordanian contingent were ambushed today near Mile 91, in an attack which left one peacekeeper dead and four wounded.

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SG/SM/7475

RAOUL WALLENBERG’S EXAMPLE ‘WILL LIVE FOREVER IN OUR CONSCIOUSNESS’ SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN BUDAPEST REMARKS

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at Raoul Wallenberg Park in Budapest, Hungary, on 30 June:

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SG/SM/7474

SECRETARY-GENERAL DISTRESSED BY FERRY BOAT SINKING IN INDONESIA, CONCERNED OVER ESCALATING VIOLENCE IN NORTHERN PROVINCES

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

The Secretary-General arrived in Warsaw on the evening of Monday, 26 June. He began his official visit to Poland on Tuesday morning.

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SG/SM/7473

GREECE AND FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA MEET UNDER SECRETARY-GENERAL’S AUSPICES

The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General:

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SG/SM/7470
AFR/249

SECRETARY-GENERAL GRATIFIED TO LEARN OF RELEASE OF 21 UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SIERRA LEONE (UNAMSIL) PERSONNEL

The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General:

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SG/SM/7469

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES IMMEDIATE END TO FIGHTING IN SUDAN

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

The Secretary-General is concerned by renewed fighting in the Bahr-el- Ghazal area between the forces of the Government of Sudan and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement.

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SG/SM/7467

ONE OF GREATEST CHALLENGES TO HUMANKIND IN NEW CENTURY WILL BE STRUGGLE TO MAKE PRACTICE OF DEMOCRACY EQUALLY UNIVERSAL, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the address delivered today in Warsaw by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the International Conference: "Towards a Community of Democracies":