ROBIN COOK BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY DELIVERS REMARKS TO AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS FESTIVAL From: Washington Transcript Service | Date: October 16, 1998 | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY ROBIN COOK DELIVERS REMARKS TO THE AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS FESTIVAL

OCTOBER 16, 1998

SPEAKERS: ROBIN COOK, BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY

[*] (AS PREPARED) COOK: Fifty years ago, the leaders of the world signed the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. In doing so, they laid one of the foundation stones of the global institutions that arose from the rubble of World War.

Their Declaration was in its time a breakthrough in international acceptance of the equality of individual rights. They affirmed rights ...

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