RULE OF LAW, DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS, MUTUAL RESPECT TRUST KEY TO KOSOVO’S

FUTURE SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN PRISTINA REMARKS

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Kosovo Art Gallery in Pristina, 18 November:

I am delighted to be among friends in Kosovo again.

`WE CLOSE IT IN DIGNITY’ SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINIA MISSION,

IN REMARKS AT SARAJEVO NATIONAL THEATRE

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Sarajevo Theatre in Sarajevo, on 17 November:

I am honoured and pleased to be back among so many friends this evening.

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S REMARKS AT SARAJEVO MEMORIAL CEREMONY

This is the text of remarks yesterday (17 November) by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at a memorial ceremony at United Nations House, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina:

We have come together today to pay solemn tribute to United Nations personnel who made the ultimate sacrifice in the service of peace in the former Yugoslavia.

LONG LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN AFGHANISTAN, BUT CHALLENGES REMAIN IMMENSE,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO GENERAL ASEMBLY PANEL

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the panel on "Afghanistan:  One Year Later", delivered by Kieran Prendergast, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, in New York on 18 November:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES IRAQ’S PRESIDENT TO FULLY COMPLY WITH SECURITY COUNCIL

DEMANDS ‘FOR THE SAKE OF HIS PEOPLE, REGIONAL STABILITY AND WORLD ORDER’

The following statement was made today in Sarajevo, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The chief United Nations weapons inspectors, Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei, arrive in Baghdad today to begin a crucial new phase of disarmament.

SECRETARY-GENERAL ENCOURAGES SUDANESE PARTIES TO PRESS AHEAD WITH PEACE TALKS

The following statement was issued on Saturday, 16 November, in Geneva by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan this morning telephoned the President of the Sudan, Omar Al-Bashir, and John Garang, leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, to convey his encouragement for the current peace talks going on in Kenya.

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Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Third Committee

52^nd Meeting (AM)

FIVE TEXTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS APPROVED BY THIRD COMMITTEE; DISCUSSION ON REFUGEES CONCLUDES

Approved Drafts Concern Human Rights Prizes, Elimination of Religious Intolerance,

Human Rights Defenders, Strengthening UN action, Decade for Human Rights Education