President expected to address UN session
Posted: Friday, May 10, 2002

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PRESIDENT Mugabe is today expected to address the UN General Assembly Special Session on Children during which he will highlight strides made by Zimbabwe on the welfare of children since the last summit in 1990.

This year's conference, which began on Wednesday, is a follow up to the one held in 1990 when 180 countries attended and out of these, 155, including Zimbabwe submitted their national plans of action to the UN.

Zimbabwe's permanent representative to the UN Ambassador Tichaona Jokonya told Zimbabwean journalists that the country had fulfilled its plan of action on children and had set in motion a lot of programmes focused on the welfare of children.

The country had made great strides in health and education. It was now one of the countries in the world that had eradicated polio and tetanus through its child immunisation programmes. MORE 

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