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SG/SM/7452

SECRETARY-GENERAL"S REMARKS ON RECEIVING 2000 PATH TO PEACE AWARD

14 June 2000


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SG/SM/7452


SECRETARY-GENERAL’S REMARKS ON RECEIVING 2000 PATH TO PEACE AWARD

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Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks on receiving the 2000 Path to Peace Award, which he will deliver tonight in New York:

SG/SM/7453

UN ISSUES CLARIFICATION ON ZIMBABWE û- NO ELECTION MONITORS PRESENT; NONE WITHDRAWN

14 June 2000


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SG/SM/7453
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UN ISSUES CLARIFICATION ON ZIMBABWE –- NO ELECTION MONITORS PRESENT; NONE WITHDRAWN

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The following clarification was issued by the Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General:

Reports that the United Nations has pulled out its election observers from Zimbabwe are not true. The United Nations had not sent and did not have any observers in Zimbabwe.

SG/SM/7449

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS INCREASING INTERDEPENDENCE OF NATIONS AN OPPORTUNITY TO FURTHER CAUSE OF UNDERSTANDING, TOLERANCE AND PEACE

13 June 2000


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SG/SM/7449


SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS INCREASING INTERDEPENDENCE OF NATIONS AN OPPORTUNITY TO FURTHER CAUSE OF UNDERSTANDING, TOLERANCE AND PEACE

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Following is the text of the welcoming remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Abdurrahman Wahid, President of Indonesia, which were delivered today at Headquarters by Giandomenico Picco, Personal Representative of the Secretary- General for the United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations:

SG/SM/7447

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES INDIGNATION, SHOCK AT CONTINUED FIGHTING IN KISANGANI

10 June 2000


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SG/SM/7447


SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES INDIGNATION, SHOCK AT CONTINUED FIGHTING IN KISANGANI

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The following statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was issued by his Spokesman on Saturday, 10 June:

I wish to express my deep indignation and shock that fighting in Kisangani is continuing, with the loss of an estimated 100 civilian lives, including schoolchildren, and more than 1,000 casualties.

SG/SM/7439/Rev.1*

KOFI ANNAN CALLS FOR SHARED VALUES OF FREEDOM, TOLERANCE AND NON- VIOLENCE IN ADDRESS TO ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE

9 June 2000


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SG/SM/7439/Rev.1*


KOFI ANNAN CALLS FOR SHARED VALUES OF FREEDOM, TOLERANCE AND NON- VIOLENCE IN ADDRESS TO ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE

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Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address this evening to the seventeenth National Convention of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee in Arlington, Virginia: