6 October 1998
Press Release
SG/SM/6733/Rev.1*
PKO/75/Rev.1*
'WE ARE ALL HUMBLED' BEFORE THOSE WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES FOR PEACE, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, PRESENTING FIRST DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD MEDALS
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Following is the text of remarks delivered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the presentation of the first Dag Hammarskjöld Medals at a commemorative meeting of the General Assembly to mark the fiftieth anniversary of United Nations peacekeeping in New York on 6 October: