Secretary-General


SG/SM/6487/Rev.1*
16 March 1998


Press Release
SG/SM/6487/Rev.1*
HR/4355/Rev.1*


SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS PREVENTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS MUST MARK TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

19980316 Addressing Opening of Human Rights Commission's Session, Stresses Need to Uphold Universal Declaration on Human Rights

Following is the text of the statement today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the opening of the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva:

SG/SM/6487
16 March 1998


Press Release
SG/SM/6487
HR/4355


SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS PREVENTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS MUST MARK TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

19980316 Addressing Opening of Human Rights Commission's Session, Stresses Need to Uphold Universal Declaration on Human Rights

Following is the text of the statement today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the opening of the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva:

SG/T/2118
13 March 1998


Press Release
SG/T/2118


SECRETARY-GENERAL'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON, D.C., 11-12 MARCH

19980313

The Secretary-General departed to Washington, D.C on the morning of Wednesday, 11 March. He and his party had an unscheduled 30-minute meeting on arrival at 10 a.m at the Ronald Reagan airport with the United States Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, Princeton Lyman.

SG/SM/6483
12 March 1998


Press Release
SG/SM/6483
WOM/1047


SECRETARY-GENERAL CITES UNITED NATIONS ROLE IN HIGHLIGHTING EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN AS MEANS OF EMPOWERING WHOLE NATION

19980312 Following is the text of a statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, delivered in Washington, D.C., on 11 March: