UN IS WORK IN PROGRESS, MUST MOVE WITH THE TIMES, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

IN UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS

 

Following is the text of the commencement address delivered today in Philadelphia by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the University of Pennsylvania:  A Future “In Larger Freedom”:

SECRETARY-GENERAL HIGHLIGHTS CONSIDERABLE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF URBAN

 

GROWTH, URGES CREATION OF ‘GREEN CITIES’, IN WORLD DAY MESSAGE

 

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on World Environmental Day, observed on 5 June:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES 14 MAY AGREEMENT ON CÔTE D’IVOIRE

 

DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION, REINTEGRATION

 

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEPLORES OUTBREAK OF VIOLENCE IN UZBEKISTAN,

 

CALLS FOR COOPERATION WITH REFUGEE AGENCY EMERGENCY TEAM

 

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

2005 OFFERS OPPORTUNITY TO CHART NEW, HOPEFUL COURSE FOR UN, SECRETARY-GENERAL

 

SAYS IN MESSAGE TO COUNCIL OF EUROPESUMMIT IN WARSAW

 

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Third Summit of the Council of Europe, being held in Warsaw, from 16 to 17 May, as delivered by Veira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia and Envoy of the Secretary-General for the September 2005 Summit:

‘WE MUST BREACH CYCLES OF POVERTY’, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

 

IN MESSAGE TO ESCAP SESSION

 

Following is the message by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the sixty-first session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in Bangkok today, delivered by Kim Hak-Su, Executive Secretary, ESCAP:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON ALL PARTIES IN GUINEA-BISSAU TO REFRAIN

 

FROM EXACERBATing TENSIONS, UNDERMINING TRANSITIONAL PROCESS

The following statement was issued on 15 May by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES FULL RESPECT FOR BLUE LINE BETWEEN LEBANON, ISRAEL

FOLLOWING EXCHANGE OF FIRE, ‘WORRIESOME ESCALATION’

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

Role of biodiversity central in underpinning sustainable development, protecting

 

society, says Secretary-General in message for international day

Following is the text of the message by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the International Day for Biological Diversity, 22 May 2005:

The Secretary-General today sent a letter to the President of the Security Council informing the Council of his intention to appoint Detlev Mehlis of Germany as the Commissioner of the UN International Independent Investigation Commission into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Mr. Mehlis is currently the Senior Public Prosecutor in the Office of the Attorney General in Berlin.  He has 25 years of prosecutorial experience and has led numerous investigations into serious, complex transnational crimes.