Press Release SG/SM/9828 ECOSOC/6150 |
EXPECTATIONS OF MOMENTOUS DECISIONS HIGH, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS
AT OPENING OF HIGH-LEVEL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL MEETING
There Is Widespread ‘If Not Now, When?’ Feeling, He Tells
World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization Delegates
Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s opening statement at the special high-level meeting of the Economic and Social Council, in New York, today, 18 April: