ACCEPTING UKRAINIAN AWARD, SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES COUNTRY

ON PATH TAKEN SINCE INDEPENDENCE

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on receiving the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise in Kiev, Ukraine, on 3 June:

You have truly honoured me by giving me this order.  I know that Yaroslav the Wise is one of your country’s most respected historical figures -- and I shall certainly wear his order with respect.

PARTNERSHIP, RESOURCES, ACTION BY YOUNG NEEDED IN AIDS FIGHT,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO UKRAINE AIDS COMMISSION

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the partnership meeting with the Inter-Ministerial AIDS Commission of Ukraine in Kiev on 3 June:

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEPLORES RECENT PUBLIC ATTACKS AGAINST MISSION

IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY DEATH OF NIGERIAN DIPLOMAT JOSEPH GARBA,

WHO SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF FORTY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL VISITS MEMORIAL TO UKRAINIAN JEWS KILLED IN 1941 AT BABI YAR;

VOWS ALL HIS POWER ‘TO FIGHT THE HATRED AND EVIL THAT SO DISFIGURE OUR WORLD’

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 3 June at the monument to Ukrainian Jews killed in 1941 at Babi Yar:

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED AT DEATH OF FORMER SWEDISH AMBASSADOR GUNNAR JARRING

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES EUROPEAN UNION RATIFICATION OF KYOTO PROTOCOL

Following are the remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the luncheon hosted by Ambassador Inocencio Arias of Spain, on the occasion of the ratification by the European Union and the European Commission of the Kyoto Protocol:

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS RAMIRO ARMANDO DE OLIVEIRA LOPES DA SILVA

OF PORTUGAL AS NEW HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR IN IRAQ

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has decided to appoint Ramiro Armando de OliveiraLopes da Silva of Portugal as the new United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq.  Mr. Lopes da Silva will succeed Tun Myat, who was recently appointed United Nations Security Coordinator. 

Biographical Note

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