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SG/SM/9903-AIDS/100-GA/10352

GLOBAL RESPONSE TO HIV/AIDS SIGNIFICANT, BUT INSUFFICIENT TO SCALE OF EPIDEMIC, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO HIGH-LEVEL UN MEETING

02/06/2005
Press Release
SG/SM/9903/Rev.1*
AIDS/100/Rev.1*
GA/10352/Rev.1*

GLOBAL RESPONSE TO HIV/AIDS SIGNIFICANT, BUT INSUFFICIENT TO SCALE


OF EPIDEMIC, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO HIGH-LEVEL UN MEETING


Following are UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the General Assembly High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, in New York, 2 June:


Four years ago, the United Nations General Assembly met in a special session and unanimously committed itself to addressing the scourge of HIV/AIDS.

SG/SM/9902

SECRETARY-GENERAL THANKS HISTORY PROJECT FOR TIMELY PUBLICATION OF ‘UN VOICES’, ‘THE POWER OF UN IDEAS’ DURING IMPORTANT YEAR OF ORGANIZATION

02/06/2005
Press Release
SG/SM/9902

SECRETARY-GENERAL THANKS HISTORY PROJECT FOR TIMELY PUBLICATION OF ‘UN VOICES’,


‘THE POWER OF UN IDEAS’ DURING IMPORTANT YEAR OF ORGANIZATION


Following are UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at an event to mark the publication of two volumes by the United Nations Intellectual History Project, in New York, 1 June:


It is a great pleasure for Nane and me to be here.

SG/T/2449

ACTIVITIES OF SECRETARY-GENERAL IN SUDAN, 27-29 MAY

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Khartoum, Sudan, for a three-day visit on Friday, 27 May, from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  On arrival, he told the waiting press that he expected that, after his visits to Darfur and the south, he would “have a better sense, a first hand impression, of what is going on in the country”.