UN chief and Eritrea President due to meet

UN News: UNSG Kofi Annan will visit Eritrea on 3 July and, among other things, meet with Eritrean President as part of his Africa trip and en route to AU Summit in Ethiopia

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON BRIEFING

BY FRED ECKHARD
SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS
UN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK

Thursday, June 24, 2004

Secretary-General Kofi Annan will be leaving this weekend on an extended trip that will take him to the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe.
On Saturday, July 3, he will fly to Asmara, Eritrea, where he will visit the Headquarters of the UN peacekeeping mission in Eritrea and Ethiopia and meet with the Eritrean President. Later that day he will proceed to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to attend the African Union Summit, where he will hold bilateral meetings and address the opening of that Summit on Tuesday, July 6. “..And I shall be discussing with the leaders of both Eritrea and Ethiopia how to implement the demarcation of the boundary between the two countries.” Said Annan on Friday, June 25, 2004.
He is expected to return to New York on Saturday, July 17.

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