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Article: -UN: Secretary-General brings 'message of hope' in address to Tokyo Conference on African Development.
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- October 23, 1998
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M2 PRESSWIRE-23 October 1998-UN: Secretary-General brings 'message of hope' in address to Tokyo Conference on African Development (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's address to the Second Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD II), delivered in Tokyo, on 21 October:
It is an honour and a pleasure to join you for this event. I would like to thank the Government of Japan for convening this Second Tokyo International Conference on African Development. At this critical moment in world affairs -- a moment of both promise and peril -- Africa's needs are in ...