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SG/SM/6798

IN WORLD AIDS DAY MESSAGE, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS EMERGENCY PERSISTS IN MANY REGIONS, DESPITE MEDICAL ADVANCES

17 November 1998


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IN WORLD AIDS DAY MESSAGE, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS EMERGENCY PERSISTS IN MANY REGIONS, DESPITE MEDICAL ADVANCES

19981117 High Cost of Treatment Noted, with 95 Per Cent of Infections In Poorer Countries; Tribute Paid to UN Pioneers Who Died in Plane Crash

This is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to mark the observance of World AIDS Day on 1 December:

SG/SM/6799

WITHOUT GLOBAL COOPERATION BETWEEN GREAT AND SMALL ALIKE, NO PROGRESS AND NO PEACE CAN LAST FOREVER, SECRETARY-GENERAL STATES

17 November 1998


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WITHOUT GLOBAL COOPERATION BETWEEN GREAT AND SMALL ALIKE, NO PROGRESS AND NO PEACE CAN LAST FOREVER, SECRETARY-GENERAL STATES

19981117 Kofi Annan Tells Foreign Policy Association Politics Are at Root Of Globalization's Difficulties and Will Be at Heart of Any Solutions

Following is the text of the address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Foreign Policy Association, in New York today:

SG/SM/6796

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS HOPE FOR SATISFACTORY DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION TO PRESENT CRISIS APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED

15 November 1998


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SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS HOPE FOR SATISFACTORY DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION TO PRESENT CRISIS APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED

19981115 Iraq Asked to Move Swiftly to Ensure `Complete And Unconditional Compliance' with Council Resolutions

This is the text of a statement to the press this evening by Secretary- General Kofi Annan, following consultations of the Security Council:

SG/SM/6792

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES INSIGHTS OF WAR-TORN SOCIETIES PROJECT, AS PROJECT PRESENTS FINDINGS IN GENEVA

12 November 1998


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SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES INSIGHTS OF WAR-TORN SOCIETIES PROJECT, AS PROJECT PRESENTS FINDINGS IN GENEVA

19981112 Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan read on his behalf by the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Alvaro de Soto, to the War-torn Societies Project, which presented some of its findings at a meeting in Geneva on 11 November:

SG/SM/6790

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY URGES PRESIDENT HUSSEIN AND IRAQI GOVERNMENT TO RESUME IMMEDIATE COOPERATION WITH UNSCOM AND I"A INSPECTORS

11 November 1998


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SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY URGES PRESIDENT HUSSEIN AND IRAQI GOVERNMENT TO RESUME IMMEDIATE COOPERATION WITH UNSCOM AND IAEA INSPECTORS

19981111 The following is a statement to the press by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

I am saddened and burdened by the Iraqi decision of 5 August and 31 October not to cooperate with the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM).

SG/SM/6789

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES DETERMINATION TO ENSURE THAT NEW PAGE CAN BE TURNED IN HISTORY OF WESTERN SAHARA

10 November 1998


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SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES DETERMINATION TO ENSURE THAT NEW PAGE CAN BE TURNED IN HISTORY OF WESTERN SAHARA

19981110 Addressing Saharan Chiefs in Laayoune, Kofi Annan Says 'My Message Is a Message of Hope and Resolution'

Following is the statement, translated from French, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Saharan Chiefs, in Laayoune, on 9 November: