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SG/SM/6624
2 July 1998


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SG/SM/6624
OBV/52


SECRETARY-GENERAL'S MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY OF COOPERATIVES

19980702 The following message was issued today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the International Day of Cooperatives, 4 July 1998:

SG/SM/6627
2 July 1998


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SG/SM/6627


SECRETARY-GENERAL DENIES REPORTED UNITED NATIONS ROLE IN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS IN COLOMBIA

19980702 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:

I wish to clarify that, contrary to press reports out of Bogota, Colombia, neither the Secretary-General nor any authorized official has proposed that the United Nations play a role in peace negotiations in that country.

GA/COL/2984
2 July 1998


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GA/COL/2984


DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE HEARS EAST TIMORESE PETITIONERS

19980702

The High Commissioner for Human Rights should develop a programme in East Timor tailored to the protection of the human rights of women and children, the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples was told as it continued its hearing of petitioners this morning.

SG/SM/6628
2 July 1998


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SG/SM/6628


SECRETARY-GENERAL'S REPRESENTATIVE ON EAST TIMOR EXPRESSES CONCERN AT 'DEPLORABLE BREACH OF DIPLOMATIC CONFIDENTIALITY'

19980702 Protest to Foreign Minister of Indonesia at Publication of Discussion Papers Intended to Help Search for Internationally Acceptable Solution

The following statement was issued this evening by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: