Press Release

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES PROGRESS IN SIX-PARTY BEIJING TALKS;

SAYS STEP TOWARDS NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREEKOREANPENINSULA

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS TERRORIST ATTACKS IN KARBALA, BAGHDAD, QUETTA

AS ‘MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE AND WHOLLY INDEFENSIBLE’

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

CLEAR CONSENSUS NEEDED ON GLOBAL THREATS, CHALLENGES SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL,

IN REMARKS TO BROOKING INSTITUTION BOARD

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at dinner with the Board of Trustees of the Brookings Institution in New York, 1 March:

PRESS STATEMENT ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the press statement on the Democratic Republic of the Congo  delivered today by Security Council President Jean-Marc de la Sablière (France):

The members of the Security Council heard this morning a briefing by the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping, on recent developments in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

PRESS STATEMENT ON IRAQ BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is the press statement on Iraq delivered by Security Council President Jean-Marc de la Sablière (France):

ANIMAL DISEASE OUTBREAKS HIT GLOBAL MEAT EXPORTS SAYS

UN FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION 

Note to Correspondents

2004 UNIS-UN CONFERENCE TO TAKE PLACE ON 4 - 5 MARCH; THEME

IS ‘MODERN MASS MEDIA: THE INFLUENCE OF INFORMATION’

Commission on the Status of Women                          

Forty-eighth Session                                       

NEW REPORT AIMS AT UNLEASHING ENTREPRENEURIAL, CREATIVE POTENTIAL IN DEVELOPING

COUNTRIES, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT HEADQUARTERS LAUNCH

Following are Secretary General Kofi Annan’s remarks at a press briefing for the launch of the report of the Commission on the Private Sector and Development in New York, on 1 March:

SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS HEROIC WOMEN LEADING FIGHT IN HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC, SAYS

THEIR FURTHER EMPOWERMENT KEY TO GLOBAL RESPONSE, IN WOMEN’S DAY MESSAGE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on International Women’s Day, which is observed 8 March: