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INVESTMENT IN LITERACY AND EDUCATION CAN YIELD BEST OF ALL RETURNS, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN INTERNATIONAL DAY MESSAGE

4 September 1998


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INVESTMENT IN LITERACY AND EDUCATION CAN YIELD BEST OF ALL RETURNS, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN INTERNATIONAL DAY MESSAGE

19980904 Despite Recent Gains, Twin Goals of Universal Literacy and Equal Access to Education Remain Unmet

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's message on the occasion of International Literacy Day, 8 September:

SG/SM/6690

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES PARLIAMENTARIANS TO DO MORE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUSTAINABLE WATER CONSUMPTION

4 September 1998


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SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES PARLIAMENTARIANS TO DO MORE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUSTAINABLE WATER CONSUMPTION

19980904 ADVANCE TEXT

The following is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the one-hundredth Inter-Parliamentary Conference meeting in Moscow from 7 to 11 September, to be delivered on his behalf by Vladimir Petrovsky, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva (embargoed until 8.30 a.m. GMT, 7 September):

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SECRETARY-GENERAL, ACCEPTING HONORARY DOCTORATE AT KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY, URGES STUDENTS TO ANSWER CALL TO PUBLIC SERVICE

25 August 1998


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SECRETARY-GENERAL, ACCEPTING HONORARY DOCTORATE AT KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY, URGES STUDENTS TO ANSWER CALL TO PUBLIC SERVICE

19980825

Following is the text of the acceptance speech by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 24 August on receiving an honorary doctorate degree in science from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana: