SG/SM/6180
10 March 1997
Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Group on Equal Rights for Women in the United Nations delivered in New York today:
Thank you for inviting me to join you in this week's celebration of International Women's Day.
Concluding its thirty-fifth session yesterday night, 6 March, the Commission for Social Development called on countries and the international community to reinstate the attainment of full, productive and freely chosen employment as a central objective of economic and social policies.