Press Release SG/SM/8262 |
SECRETARY-GENERAL, ACCEPTING MOSCOW AWARD, SAYS STRENGTH OF RUSSIAN SPIRIT
‘IS YOUR COUNTRY’S GREATEST NATURAL ASSET’
Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on receiving the Commemorative Medal of Prince Gorchakov, Moscow, 5 June:
I am deeply honoured by this award -- and doubly so since I am the first non-Russian to receive it.