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DSG/SM/31
17 November 1998


Press Release
DSG/SM/31


DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS POOR COUNTRIES, STRUGGLING TO ADOPT GROWTH POLICIES, DESERVE GREATER SUPPORT IN THEIR EFFORTS

19981117 Tells D.C. Audience Growing Gap in Global Living Standards Can Be Encouragement to Militancy, Threat to Peace and Security

This is the text of an address by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Frechette today to the Women's Foreign Policy Group in Washington, D.C.:

SG/SM/6798
17 November 1998


Press Release
SG/SM/6798
OBV/73


IN WORLD AIDS DAY MESSAGE, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS EMERGENCY PERSISTS IN MANY REGIONS, DESPITE MEDICAL ADVANCES

19981117 High Cost of Treatment Noted, with 95 Per Cent of Infections In Poorer Countries; Tribute Paid to UN Pioneers Who Died in Plane Crash

This is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to mark the observance of World AIDS Day on 1 December: