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DSG/SM/244
02/02/2005
Press Release
DSG/SM/244

UNITED STATES ENGAGEMENT CRUCIAL FOR STRONG, SUCCESSFUL UNITED NATIONS, SAYS


DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL IN ADDRESS TO WOMEN’S FOREIGN POLICY GROUP


Following is the text of the address as delivered today by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to the Women’s Foreign Policy Group:  “New Challenges for the United Nations” in Washington, D.C.:

DSG/SM/241-HR/4804-OBV/462
10/12/2004
Press Release
DSG/SM/241
HR/4804
OBV/462

Deputy Secretary-General’s human rights day message to General Assembly


stresses need to remember persisting abuses worldwide

 


She Describes Occasion as Opportunity

For Rededication to Essential Strategy of Human Rights Education


Following is the text of Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette’s statement to the General Assembly on Human Rights Day, observed in New York today, 10 December:

DSG/SM/236-POP/909
14/10/2004
Press Release
DSG/SM/236
POP/909

Deputy Secretary-General says profound, far-reaching gains in population issues


tempered by ‘unfinished agenda’, at General Assembly commemoration


Following are Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette’s remarks to the General Assembly commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in New York, 14 October:

DSG/SM/235-WOM/1470
14/10/2004
Press Release
DSG/SM/235
WOM/1470

UN constant partner, ally of women in work for equal rights,


says Deputy Secretary-General at Headquarters observance

 


Following are Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette’s remarks on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, in New York, 13 October:


Thank you.  I am delighted to be with you for this special anniversary.