SPEECH

Secretary-General Kofi Annan and other friends of Bella Abzug celebrate the life of the feisty American activist and politician for her extraordinary contribution to women’s rights.

"We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike." American poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou recites a poem during the gathering for the United Nations Development Fund for Women's Achievement Awards.

Lynda Chalker, Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Minister for Overseas Development of the United Kingdom, delivers the 8th Rafael M. Salas Memorial Lecture.

For the United Nations' 50th birthday, Pope John Paul II praises the quest for freedom as one of the distinguished marks of the time and as a universal human right the UN has to defend.

Secretary-General Boutros Boutros Ghali gives a special toast to Nelson Mandela, newly elected president of South Africa. Mandela follows with his own toast to the UN.

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway, delivers the 5th Rafael M. Salas Memorial Lecture.

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway, delivers the 5th Rafael M. Salas Memorial Lecture.

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway, delivers the 5th Rafael M. Salas Memorial Lecture.

Severn Cullis-Suzuki, delivers her famous speech at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).

Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali delivers his first address to UN staff.