Some highlights of
Secretary-General Kofi Annan's 9-day tour of
South Africa, Namibia, Angola and Togo in March 1997

On 20 March, Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left) talks with Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, in the offices of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Capetown, South Africa.
(UN Photo#187163C by Milton Grant)
On 20 March, Secretary-General Kofi Annan (right) and Mrs. Nane Annan (centre) speak with Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the First Lady of the United States while attending the Robbin Island (South Africa) Museum Trust Fund Banquet.
(UN Photo #187164C by Milton Grant)
On 20 March, Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Mrs. Nane Annan meet with Nelson Mandela (left), President of South Africa.
(UN Photo # 187162C by Milton Grant)
On 22 March, Secretary General Kofi Annan (centre) and Mrs. Nane Annan meet with Sam Nujomo (right), President of the Republic of Namibia at the Presidential Palace in Windhoek, Namibia.
(UN Photo #187146C by Milton Grant)
On 22 March, Secretary General Kofi Annan (right) confers with his Spokesman, Fred Eckhard, en route by air to Angola, during the Secretary-General's African Tour.
(UN Photo #187225C by Milton Grant)
On 23 March, Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left, waving his hand) receives an enthusiastic welcome as he arrives at Kuito Airport in Angola.
(UN Photo #187155C by Milton Grant)
On 23 March, Secretary-General Kofi Annan (third from right) shakes hands with a member of BRABAT, Brazilian Battalion which is part of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission III. Force Commander Major General Philip V. Sibanda is second from right.
(UN Photo #187205C by Milton Grant)
Members of the Brazilian Battalion Honor Guard, part of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission III, salute Secretary-General Kofi Annan (centre, left) and Force Commander Major General Philip V. Sibanda (centre, right) at Kuito Airport in Angola.
(UN Photo #187204C by Milton Grant)
On 24 March, Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left) meets with Jose Eduardo dos Santos, President of the Republic of Angola, at Funtungo Palace in Luanda.
(UN Photo #187197C by Milton Grant)
On 26 March, Secretary-General Kofi Annan (first person on the left behind head-table) attends a Summit Conference of Heads of State and Governments of the Central Organs of the Organization of African Unit Mechanism for Conflicts Prevention, Management and Resolution, held in Lome, Togo.
(UN Photo# 187149C by Milton Grant)
On 26 March in Lome, Togo, Secretary-General Kofi Annan (centre) meets with President Paul Biya (left) of Cameroon and President Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo.
(UN Photo # 187152C by Milton Grant)
On 27 March in Lome, Togo, Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left) meets with General Sani Abacha, Head of State of Nigeria.
(UN Photo #187154C by Milton Grant)


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