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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 RightsFollowing 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: