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SG/SM/6797

SECRETARY-GENERAL LAUDS UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING -- NOT ANSWER TO ALL CONFLICT, BUT WITH CRUCIAL CONTINUING ROLE

17 November 1998


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SECRETARY-GENERAL LAUDS UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING -- NOT ANSWER TO ALL CONFLICT, BUT WITH CRUCIAL CONTINUING ROLE

19981117 Receiving 1998 World Methodist Peace Award, UN Chief Also Notes 50th Anniversary of Universal Human Rights Declaration

This is the text of a statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in New York today, at a ceremony where he received the 1998 World Methodist Peace Award:

SG/SM/6796

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS HOPE FOR SATISFACTORY DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION TO PRESENT CRISIS APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED

15 November 1998


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SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS HOPE FOR SATISFACTORY DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION TO PRESENT CRISIS APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED

19981115 Iraq Asked to Move Swiftly to Ensure `Complete And Unconditional Compliance' with Council Resolutions

This is the text of a statement to the press this evening by Secretary- General Kofi Annan, following consultations of the Security Council:

SG/T/2156

ACTIVITIES OF SECRETARY-GENERAL IN WESTERN SAHARA 8 - 9 NOVEMBER

13 November 1998


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ACTIVITIES OF SECRETARY-GENERAL IN WESTERN SAHARA 8 - 9 NOVEMBER

19981113 (Received from a spokesman travelling with the Secretary-General.)

The Secretary-General travelled from Mauritania to Western Sahara in the afternoon of Sunday, 8 November. He was welcomed at the airport by the Moroccan Minister of the Interior, Driss Basri, and by senior officials of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).

SG/SM/6792

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES INSIGHTS OF WAR-TORN SOCIETIES PROJECT, AS PROJECT PRESENTS FINDINGS IN GENEVA

12 November 1998


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SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES INSIGHTS OF WAR-TORN SOCIETIES PROJECT, AS PROJECT PRESENTS FINDINGS IN GENEVA

19981112 Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan read on his behalf by the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Alvaro de Soto, to the War-torn Societies Project, which presented some of its findings at a meeting in Geneva on 11 November:

SG/SM/6790

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY URGES PRESIDENT HUSSEIN AND IRAQI GOVERNMENT TO RESUME IMMEDIATE COOPERATION WITH UNSCOM AND I"A INSPECTORS

11 November 1998


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SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY URGES PRESIDENT HUSSEIN AND IRAQI GOVERNMENT TO RESUME IMMEDIATE COOPERATION WITH UNSCOM AND IAEA INSPECTORS

19981111 The following is a statement to the press by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

I am saddened and burdened by the Iraqi decision of 5 August and 31 October not to cooperate with the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM).