Secretary-General: Press Release


SG/SM/6352
7 October 1997


Press Release
SG/SM/6352
AFR/20


SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR END TO UNFOUNDED ANTI-UNHCR MEDIA CAMPAIGN IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

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

I deplore the radio and television broadcasts in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo which falsely accuse the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) of arming Rwandan refugees.