SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES PEOPLE OF SIERRA LEONE ON ‘SPIRIT OF MUTUAL

RESPECT AND RECONCILIATION’ IN YESTERDAY’S ELECTIONS

Appeals for Continued Calm, Restraint

As Election Results are Collated and Announced

The following statement was issued today be the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

AFRICAN MINISTERS ADOPT DRUG CONTROL ACTION PLAN FOR AFRICA

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES HOLDING OF ELECTIONS IN SIERRA LEONE ON 14 MAY

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECURITY COUNCIL CONCLUDES MISSION TO GREAT LAKES REGION

The following communiqué was issued today by the Security Council mission to the Great Lakes region on 6 May:

The delegation of the Security Council of the United Nations concluded on

6 May 2002 in Kigali, Rwanda, its mission to the Great Lakes region, which started on 28 April in Pretoria, South Africa, and which included visits to eight countries.

UN STANDING ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON SECURITY QUESTIONS IN CENTRAL AFRICA

COMMEMORATES TENTH ANNIVERSARY AND ADOPTS KINSHASA DECLARATION

UN ‘CONVOY OF HOPE’ SETS SAIL FOR KISANGANI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO,

TO RESTORE TRADE AND ENSURE FOOD SECURITY

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES CENTRAL AFRICAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE’S TIRELESS

EFFORTS FOR PEACE, IN MESSAGE TO KINSHASA MINISTERIAL MEETING

AFRICA’S ‘NEW SPIRIT OF DEMOCRATIC EMPOWERMENT’, CONTINENT’S SOBERING CHALLENGES

HIGHLIGHTED BY SECRETARY-GENERAL IN ADDRESS AT HARVARD’S KENNEDY SCHOOL

Following is the text of the Godkin Lecture delivered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, on 24 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL NAMES LENA SUNDH (SWEDEN) DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE

FOR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

NUMBER OF COUNTRIES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA WILL REQUIRE SIGNIFICANT INCREASE