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Annan marks centenary of 'visionary' former UN leader Hammarskjöld's birth

Swedish-born former United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld "embodied the very definition of a visionary," for he was deeply aware that development, security and human rights were not only ends in themselves, but that they reinforced each other, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today in a message marking the centenary of Mr. Hammarskjöld's birth.

UN marks 41st anniversary of death of second Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld

A senior United Nations official today laid a wreath at a ceremony marking the 41st anniversary of the death of the second UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld and those accompanying him on a mission of peace in the Congo which ended in a fatal plane crash.