Secretary-General’s message for ‘celebrate humanity’

campaign by international Olympic committee

Following is the text of a video message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the “Celebrate Humanity” Campaign by the International Olympic Committee:

The greatest moment of a swimming race is not when one swimmer begins to pull ahead of the pack, or when one touches the wall in victory.

Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS ROBERT C. ORR AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL

FOR POLICY COORDINATION AND STRATEGIC PLANNING

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR PROMOTION OF SOLIDARITY BETWEEN GENERATIONS,

IN MESSAGE ON INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on International Youth Day, observed 12 August:

JOINT EFFORTS, INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY CAN MAKE CRITICAL DIFFERENCE IN RESPONDING

TO REGION’S ASPIRATIONS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS PACIFICISLANDS FORUM SUMMIT

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Accra in the evening of Tuesday, 27 July.

Secretary-general calls for renewed determination to ensure peace, development,

human rights for indigenous people, in international message

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the International Day of the World Indigenous People observed 9 August:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON DARFUR

The Secretary-General welcomes the adoption today of resolution 1556 by the Security Council on the situation in Darfur, Sudan.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS BOMBINGS IN TASHKENT

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

The Secretary-General expresses his strong dismay at today’s series of bombings against the Embassies of the United States and Israel, as well as the Office of the Prosecutor General, in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent.  Reportedly, two people were killed and about a dozen were injured in the attacks.

SECRETARY-GENERAL DISMAYED BY BRUTAL KILLING OF TWO PAKISTANI HOSTAGES IN IRAQ

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR ‘COMMITMENT AND COMPROMISE’ TO MOVE COTED’IVOIRE

PEACE PROCESS FORWARD, IN REMARKS TO ACCRA MEETING

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the opening of the plenary session of the High-Level Meeting on Côte d’Ivoire: