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UN Crime Commission Meeting to Focus on Rule of Law and Development

Forty-Member Body to Hold Thirteenth Session in Vienna from 11 to 20 May

UN Launches Anti-Corruption Video Spots:  ‘With Corruption, Everyone Pays’

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SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED OVER REPORTS

OF GROWING COMMUNAL CLASHES IN NIGERIA

Following is the text of a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General is deeply concerned over reports of growing communal clashes in Nigeria, and condemns the attacks in the village of Yelwa in PlateauState where hundreds of people lost their lives last week.

DESPITE SEA-CHANGE IN GLOBAL ATTITUDES, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES STILL SUFFER

FROM PREJUDICE AND ILL-WILL, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS PERMANENT FORUM

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the opening of the third session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on 10 May:

SECRETARY-GENERAL dismayed by terrorist attack in chechnya

Following is the text of a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT CONSTANT SOURCE OF INSPIRATION TO ALL WHO WORK AT UN,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN VIDEO MESSAGE ON RECEIPT OF FOUR FREEDOMS AWARD

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s video message on receipt of the Four Freedoms Award, which was presented at a ceremony in Middleburg, Netherlands, on 8 May:

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1,100 PALESTINIANS MADE HOMELESS IN GAZA IN 10 DAYS OF DESTRUCTION

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