SG/SM/6378
4 November 1997
The mission appointed by the Secretary-General to travel to Baghdad will be departing tonight and is expected to arrive in Baghdad on Tuesday, or at the latest on Wednesday.
Next Tuesday, 4 November, the Secretary-General will travel to South America on a six-day visit to Chile and Venezuela.
This is the text of a statement today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the tenth annual meeting of the Committee of Co-Sponsoring Organizations of UNAIDS: