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SECRETARY-GENERAL HIGHLIGHTS IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION, WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT

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SECRETARY-GENERAL REAFFIRMS DETERMINATION OF UNITED NATIONS

TO HELP BOTSWANA FIGHT HIV/AIDS

Following is the text of a toast by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the State banquet hosted in his honour by His Excellency Festus G. Mogae, President of the Republic of Botswana, in Gaborone on 27 August:

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BOTSWANA’S SUCCESS DEMONSTRATES THAT AFRICA CAN OVERCOME PROBLEMS

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Luanda on Sunday evening, 25 August, for a two-day official visit to Angola.

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At the end of his holiday in Ghana, the Secretary-General accepted a long-standing invitation to meet in Côte d’Ivoire with that country’s President Laurent Gbagbo.

On Friday, 16 August, while on holiday in his native Ghana, Secretary-General Kofi Annan was awarded the traditional honorary title of “Busumuru” by the Ashanti people in his birthplace of Kumasi.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONFIDENT THAT INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IS PREPARED

TO ASSIST ANGOLA IN OVERCOMING COMPLEX CHALLENGES

Following is the text of a toast by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at a State banquet hosted by President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos of Angola in Luanda today:

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