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DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

9 January 1997



Press Briefing

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

19970109 FOR INFORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ONLY

Fred Eckhard, Acting Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said the Secretary-General had addressed the staff this morning in the General Assembly Hall, and there was "a full house". Mr. Eckhard then read out the excerpts from Mr. Annan's address, as follows: