SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES EXTENSION OF AFRICAN UNION MISSION’S DARFUR MANDATE

 

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

IN PERIOD OF SHARPLY INCREASING INTOLERANCE, EXTREMISM, CONFERENCE ON INTERFAITH

COOPERATION CAN URGE GOVERNMENTS TO TAKE STRONGER STEPS, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

ON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE, SECRETARY-GENERAL RINGS PEACE BELL,

URGES ALL TO PLEDGE TO DO MORE TO BRING ABOUT LASTING PEACE

Following are the remarks made today by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Peace Bell Ceremony on the International Day of Peace:

NEED FOR SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM NEVER GREATER; UNTIL THEN, UN HANDICAPPED

BY PERCEPTION OF INEQUITABLE SHARE OF POWER, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS LIEUTENANT GENERAL GIOVANNI RIDINÓ OF ITALY AS DIRECTOR

OF NEW STRATEGIC MILITARY CELL FOR UNITED NATIONS INTERIM FORCE IN LEBANON

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPEALS FOR PROMPT RETURN TO CIVILIAN, DEMOCRATIC RULE,

SWIFT HOLDING OF ELECTIONS IN THAILAND, AFTER OVERTHROW OF GOVERNMENT

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES LAUNCH OF MINISTERIAL STATEMENT SUPPORTING

NUCLEAR-TEST-BAN TREATY; URGES RATIFICATION BY KEY STATES

 

LET’S TAKE PARTNERSHIP WITH REGIONAL BODIES TO NEW LEVEL OF CLARITY,

PRACTICALITY, SERIOUSNESS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

MIDDLE EAST QUARTET, TAKING STOCK OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS, STRESSES

URGENT NEED FOR PROGRESS TOWARDS JUST, COMPREHENSIVE PEACE

 

The following statement was issued today by the Middle East Quartet (United Nations, European Union, Russian Federation, United States):

STATES MUST MAKE IMMEDIATE START IN TRANSLATING COMMITMENTS INTO REALITY,

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT LAUNCH OF COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY