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SG/SM/7482
7 July 2000


Press Release
SG/SM/7482
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SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES THAT FUTURE OF AFRICA LIES IN ITS PEOPLE

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Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks today in Accra at the opening of an exhibition on United Nations Peacekeeping and presentation of the booklet: “Ghana: Four Decades of UN and Regional Peackeeping”:

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The Secretary-General flew from Budapest, Hungary, to Hanover, Germany, on Saturday, 1 July, where he was welcomed by Mayor Herbert Schmalstieg and signed the city’s Golden Book for visitors.