TELEVISION:

1. The 10 December 1997 is Human Rights Day and the beginning of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will be issuing a message for this special occasion. This message will be sent out world-wide via satellite on Tuesday, 9 December 1997, embargoed until Wednesday, 10 December.

2. Recorded in English only, this message together with a message from Mrs. Mary Robinson UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and two public service announcements is being offered free-of-charge to broadcasters who would like to down link this package and include it in their programming either in its entirety or in part.

3. Please alert your technical staff that this Human Rights Day package may be downlinked according to the following details:

ATLANTIC OCEAN REGION:	INTELSAT AOR@325.0 degrees east, transponder 38, Channel 1 PAL
INDIAN OCEAN REGION:	INTELSAT POR 177 degrees east, transponder 38, Channel 1 PAL
NORTH AMERICA:	GALAXY C-4, Transponder 10

4. TIME: 0945-0957 UTC/GMT	LENGTH	TRANSCRIPT
0945 - 0946 Slate
0946 - 0949 SG's message	3:00	Transcript
0949 - 0953 High Commission for Human Rights message	4:00	Transcript
0953 - 0956 Human Rights Day Public Service Announcements	PSA (60 secs.) PSA (30 secs).: 3:00.

RADIO:

Radio Broadcasters may download the audio messages from this Page (available Monday 8 December 1997).  Each message is available in Realaudio and .wav formats:  They are embargoed until Wednesday, 10 December 1997.

.rm  file (RealAudio Player required)
.wav (filesize 1.8 MB)

 

Secretary-General's Message:	High Commision for Human Rights  Message
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.wav file	.wav file

5. We do apologize for the late notification of these messages and satellite transmission, and do hope that you will be able to broadcast these very important messages. Should you wish to contact us directly, we can be reached at: Tel: (212) 963-6982; Fax: (212) 963-6869; e-mail: sue-ting-len@un.org

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