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SG/SM/10402-DEV/2571
3 April 2006
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/10402
DEV/2571
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

At un ceremony, Secretary-General calls for making ‘sport an essential component’


of efforts for development

 


Following is the text of remarks by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on presentation of the report on the International Year of Sport and Physical Education, today, in New York:

AFR/1356-IHA/1177
31 March 2006
Press ReleaseAFR/1356
IHA/1177
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

UN DEDICATES $1.7 MILLION FROM NEW GLOBAL EMERGENCY FUND TO HORN OF AFRICA


NEW YORK, 31 March (OCHA) -- The United Nations has now granted just over $1.7 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to the World Health Organization (WHO) for urgent, life-saving programmes in the Horn of Africa.