Secretary-General Makes First State Visit to Canada, 1-3 December 1997
Secretary-General Kofi Annan made his first State visit to Canada to meet with senior officials and address the opening ceremony for the signing of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel mines and on their Destruction.
Prime Minister Jean Chretien presents the instruments of ratification of the Convention to Secretary-General Kofi Annan (third left). To the left of the Secretary-General is Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy.