Population

Population

I would like to thank you for the extensive coverage in your columns of the meeting entitled The road to Cairo -- Population, Sustained Economic Growth and Sustainable Development held in the United Nations Information Center, Jakarta, on Aug. 23, 1994.

However, in the article published in your edition of Aug. 24, 1994 with the title UN prepares for abortion debate at Cairo meet, some mistakes have slipped into what I was quoted saying.

I did not say, like it is written in the article, that "more than 15,000 abortions take place each year in the world and 25 to 30 percent result in the mother's death," but that there are 50 million abortions every year, and that of the 500,000 maternal deaths that occur worldwide annually, 25 to 33 percent result from complications of unsafe abortions.

ALI UGUR TUNCER

Country Director

United Nations Fund

for Population

Jakarta