CRAFT NEW ERA FOR AGEING IN NEW CENTURY, SECRETARY-GENERAL

SAYS IN DAY OF OLDER PERSONS MESSAGE

The following is the message issued by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons, 1 October:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES BELIZE-GUATEMALA AGREEMENT

ENDING TERRITORIAL DISPUTE

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

The Secretary-General wholeheartedly welcomes the announcement that Belize and Guatemala have reached agreement ending their long-standing territorial controversy.

SECRETARY-GENERAL HIGHLIGHTS KEY ELEMENTS OF QUARTET PLAN FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's introductory remarks to the press following the meeting of the quartet at United Nations Headquarters today:

There is a communiqué of today’s meeting.  You should be receiving the communiqué later.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS JAPAN-DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA PYONGYANG

DECLARATION ‘LANDMARK CONTRIBUTION TO REGIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY’

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

SALUTING INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE, SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS

'TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF GLOBAL CEASEFIRE AND NON-VIOLENCE'

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to mark the International Day of Peace, 21 September:

EFFORTS MUST BE ENCOURAGED TO PREPARE GROUND FOR PEACE, DEMOCRACY,

GOOD GOVERNANCE IN LIBERIA, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Inaugural Meeting of the International Contact Group on Liberia, delivered today by Mr. Tuliameni Kalomoh, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONFIDENT THAT EAST TIMOR’S NEW INSTITUTIONS

WILL SAFEGUARD DEMOCRATIC INDEPENDENCE

The following message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the UNITAR conference on UNTAET was delivered by Marcel Boisard, Executive Director, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in Tokyo today:

‘UN REMAINS STRONGLY COMMITTED’ TO ERADICATION

OF LANDMINE THREAT, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

The following message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Fourth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, was delivered today in Geneva by Sergio Vieira de Mello, High Commissioner for Human Rights:

STRENGTHENING OF NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION REGIME MORE CRITICAL THAN EVER,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Forty-Sixth General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), delivered by Jayantha Dhanapala, Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, in Vienna today:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CITES ‘SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP’ BETWEEN GLOBAL GOALS ON POVERTY,

NEW PLAN FOR AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT, IN STATEMENT TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the meeting of the General Assembly devoted to the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) in New York on 16 September: