SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES PLANNED OPENING OF UN HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE IN GUATEMALA

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY CONDEMNS KILLING

 

OF PROMINENT LEBANESE JOURNALIST IN BEIRUT

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

The Secretary-General strongly condemns the killing, in a bomb blast in Beirut, of Samir Kassir, a prominent and outspoken Lebanese journalist, and another person in Beirut earlier today.  He expresses his condolences to the families of both victims.

GLOBAL RESPONSE TO HIV/AIDS SIGNIFICANT, BUT INSUFFICIENT TO SCALE

OF EPIDEMIC, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO HIGH-LEVEL UN MEETING

Following are UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the General Assembly High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, in New York, 2 June:

Four years ago, the United Nations General Assembly met in a special session and unanimously committed itself to addressing the scourge of HIV/AIDS.

SECRETARY-GENERAL THANKS HISTORY PROJECT FOR TIMELY PUBLICATION OF ‘UN VOICES’,

‘THE POWER OF UN IDEAS’ DURING IMPORTANT YEAR OF ORGANIZATION

Following are UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at an event to mark the publication of two volumes by the United Nations Intellectual History Project, in New York, 1 June:

It is a great pleasure for Nane and me to be here.

Secretary-General outraged by ‘senseless attack’

 

on mosque in kandahar, afghanistan

 

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

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Khartoum, Sudan, for a three-day visit on Friday, 27 May, from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  On arrival, he told the waiting press that he expected that, after his visits to Darfur and the south, he would “have a better sense, a first hand impression, of what is going on in the country”.

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES PURSUIT OF INCLUSIVE, PARTICIPATORY,

TRANSPARENT CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS IN IRAQ

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘VERY ENCOURAGED’ BY DEMOCRATIC CONDUCT

 

OF LEBANESE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

 

The following statement was issued on 29 May by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

ONLY POLITICAL SETTLEMENT CAN RESOLVE DARFUR CONFLICT, SECRETARY-GENERAL

TELLS CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW COMMISSION IN SUDAN

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement to the National Constitutional Review Commission in Rumbek, Sudan on 29 May:

Chairman John Garang,

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Addis Ababa late on Wednesday, 25 May, after an overnight stopover in London.