WORDS ALONE INADEQUATE AS RESPONSE TO TERRORIST ATTACKS, SECRETARY-GENERAL

TELLS OPENING OF FIFTY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Following is the text of the statement made today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the first meeting of the fifty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly:

Mr. President -– congratulations on your election to this important responsibility.

UNITED NATIONS NEEDS SUPPORT OF ALL RELIGIONS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS

ANNUAL PRE-ASSEMBLY RELIGIOUS SERVICE

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan delivered at the Holy Family Church in New York on 10 September:

I want to thank you all for being here today, and special thanks to Archbishop Martino and Cardinal Egan for organizing this service.  It is an event that means a lot to me personally.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS TERRORIST ATTACK ON UNITED STATES

‘IN STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS’

Following is the text of a statement to the Security Council made today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL ADDRESSES PARLIAMENTARIANS ON CHILDREN AND HIV/AIDS

Following is an English translation of the text of a French-language message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the 106th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Conference, delivered on 9 September on his behalf by Olara Otunnu, his Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso:

Biographical Note                                           SG/2031/Rev.5*

                Following is the text of a statement made today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

We are all traumatized by this terrible tragedy.  We do not know yet how many people have been killed or injured, but inevitably the number will be high.  Our first thoughts and prayers must be for them and for their families.  I wish to express my profound condolences to them, and to the people and Government of the United States.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Mrs. Nane Annan arrived in Sweden from Africa in the morning of Wednesday, 5 September.

SECRETARY-GENERAL FOCUSES ON AIDS, POVERTY, PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

IN SPEECH TO NGOS

Following is the text of a statement made by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in New York this morning to the fifty-fourth Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organization (DPI/NGO) Conference:

MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY-GENERAL ON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE

11 September 2001

Following is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of International Day Of Peace (11 September):

The International Day of Peace is a day on which we try to imagine a world quite different from the one we know.

We try to picture those who wage war laying down their arms and talking out their differences.

Statement by Secretary-General on conclusion of World Conference Against Racism,

Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the conclusion of the World Conference Against Racism, Durban, 8 September: