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SG/SM/9088/Rev.1
19/12/2003
Press Release
SG/SM/9088/Rev.1


TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN AT UNITED


NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK, ON 18 DECEMBER 2003


Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen.


I am glad to see you all before the holidays.  It has been a rather hard year.


I have no doubt that you will have lots of questions about Iraq.  But before you get on to that, there are a few things I would want to say.

SG/SM/9090-AFR/799
19/12/2003
Press Release
SG/SM/9090
AFR/799


GOOD GOVERNMANCE ESSENTIAL FOR POLITICAL STABILITY, ECONOMIC GROWTH


SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO WEST AFRICAN SUMMIT


Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States, delivered by Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Chief of the United Nations Office for West Africa, in Accra, 19 December:

SG/SM/9088
18/12/2003
Press Release
SG/SM/9088


TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN AT UNITED


NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK, ON 18 DECEMBER 2003


Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen.


I am glad to see you all before the holidays.  It has been a rather hard year.


I have no doubt that you will have lots of questions about Iraq.  But before you get on to that, there are a few things I would want to say.