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SG/SM/9304

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES AGREEMENT ON PARTICIPATION IN MYANMAR NATIONAL CONVENTION

14/05/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9304


SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES AGREEMENT ON PARTICIPATION IN MYANMAR NATIONAL CONVENTION


Following is the text of a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:


The Secretary-General is disappointed to learn that an agreement has not been reached for the participation of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and some other ethnic nationality parties in the National Convention due to begin on 17 May.

SG/SM/9300-AFR/923

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED OVER REPORTS OF GROWING COMMUNAL CLASHES IN NIGERIA

10/05/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9300
AFR/923


SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED OVER REPORTS


OF GROWING COMMUNAL CLASHES IN NIGERIA


Following is the text of a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:


The Secretary-General is deeply concerned over reports of growing communal clashes in Nigeria, and condemns the attacks in the village of Yelwa in PlateauState where hundreds of people lost their lives last week.

SG/SM/9299-HR/4747

DESPITE SEA-CHANGE IN GLOBAL ATTITUDES, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES STILL SUFFER FROM PREJUDICE AND ILL-WILL, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS PERMANENT FORUM

10/05/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9299
HR/4747


DESPITE SEA-CHANGE IN GLOBAL ATTITUDES, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES STILL SUFFER


FROM PREJUDICE AND ILL-WILL, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS PERMANENT FORUM


Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the opening of the third session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on 10 May: