SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES DESTRUCTION OF ‘CRUEL, INHUMANE’ ARMS WITHIN ESTABLISHED

DEADLINES, IN MESSAGE TO CONFERENCE OF PARTIES TO CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY DEPLORES FIJI MILITARY’S SEIZURE OF POWER

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

Sexual exploitation ‘utterly immoral’, Completely at odds with United Nations

MIssion, says Secretary-General to New York Conference

 

IN MESSAGE TO OBSERVE WORLD AIDS DAY, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS HALTING SPREAD

 

OF DISEASE PREREQUISITE FOR ATTAINING OTHER MILLENNIUM GOALS

 

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the occasion of World AIDS Day, today, 1 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN remarks TO MARK WORLD AIDS DAY, SPELLS OUT REQUIREMENTS

OF ‘ACCOUNTABILITY’ THEME FOR THIS YEAR’S OBSERVANCE

‘WITH YOUR HELP, MY FELLOW AFRICANS ARE TRANSFORMING DESPAIR INTO HOPE, AND HATRED

INTO HEALING,’ SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT LAUNCH OF HUMANITARIAN APPEAL

Following is the text of remarks, as delivered today by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, at the launch of Humanitarian Appeal 2007 in New York:

IN MESSAGE TO AFRICAN UNION PEACE AND SECURITY COUNCIL, SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES

CALL FOR IMMEDIATE, UNCONDITIONAL CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES IN DARFUR

DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT HEAVY FIGHTING IN SOUTHERN SUDAN, SECRETARY-GENERAL

SAYS HOSTILITIES ‘SERIOUS VIOLATION’ OF COMPREHENSIVE PEACE AGREEMENT

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN REMARKS ON DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIAN PEOPLE,

SAYS ‘ALARMING’ HUMANITARIAN SITUATION DEMANDS IMMEDIATE ATTENTION

Secretary-General, in message to human rights council, cautions against focusing

on middle east at expense of darfur, other grave crises