MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE TO NATURAL HAZARDS, SAYS

SECRETARY-GENERAL ON INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR DISASTER REDUCTION

Following is the Secretary-General's message for the International Day for Disaster Reduction -- "Disaster reduction for sustainable mountain development",

9 October 2002:

ROLE OF UN IS ‘TO PLACE SAFETY AND WELFARE OF HUMAN BEINGS AT CENTRE

OF EVERYTHING THAT WE DO’, SECRETARY GENERAL SAYS

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary General Kofi Annan at the inauguration today of Lee Bollinger as President of Colombia University in New York:

It is always a special honour to visit this great university.  Any institution of learning is of importance to the United Nations, but Columbia is doubly so.

IN YALE UNIVERSITY ADDRESS, SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEADS

CAUSE OF ‘INCLUSIVE’ GLOBALIZATION

Following is the address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at Yale University, New Haven, 2 October 2002:

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SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS WORLD IS "FALLING SHORT" IN EFFORTS

TO MEET GOALS OF MILLENIUM DECLARATION

First Progress Report on Implementation of UN Plan

Shows Dramatic "Speed Up" Needed to Meet Targets Set for 2015

These are the opening remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan today at a Headquarters press conference on the first progress report on the implementation of the Millennium Declaration:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ISRAELI DECISION TO LIFT SIEGE OF RAMALLAH COMPOUND

This statement has been issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES GRIEF AT SENEGAL FERRY DISASTER

This statement was issued on 28 September by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General is deeply saddened by the news that hundreds of people are feared drowned after a Senegalese passenger ferry capsized off the coast of the Gambia in a violent storm.  He expresses his heartfelt condolences to the Government, families and friends of the victims.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WARNS WORLD FALLING SHORT OF MILLENNIUM SUMMIT COMMITMENTS;

OUTLINES STEPS TO ACCELERATE PROGRESS

SECRETARY-GENERAL AFFIRMS UN SUPPORT FOR SUBREGIONAL EFFORTS

TO RESOLVE CÔTE D'IVOIRE CRISIS

Following is a statement on the situation in Côte d'Ivoire by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General continues to follow with deep concern the developments in Côte d’Ivoire.

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