‘HISTORIC FUNDAMENTAL PROGRESS IS POSSIBLE’ AT SEPTEMBER UN SUMMIT, SAYS

SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO FORMER CIVIL SERVANTS MEETING

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Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the occasion of the thirty-fifth anniversary and Annual Assembly of the Association of Former International Civil Servants (AFICS), in New York, 18 May:

IN VIDEO MESSAGE, SECRETARY-GENERAL OFFERS TRIBUTE

 

TO JAMES WOLFENSOHN, PRESIDENT, WORLD BANK

Following is the text of the video message by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the tribute to James Wolfensohn, President, World Bank:

Dear Jim,

SECRETARY-GENERAL ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT OF KIERAN PRENDERGAST,

 

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS

 

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

On Sunday afternoon, 15 May, Secretary-General Kofi Annan, accompanied by his wife Nane, travelled to Philadelphia, where he would deliver the commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania the following morning.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Geneva from Moscow on Tuesday morning, 10 May.

NON-SELF-GOVERNING PEOPLES MUST KNOW THEIR OPTIONS, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

IN MESSAGE TO CARIBBEAN DECOLONIZATION SEMINAR

 

Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS CHRISTOPHER BANCROFT BURNHAM OF UNITED STATES

AS NEW UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR MANAGEMENT

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES 13 MAY ADOPTION OF DRAFT CONSTITUTION

BY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

 

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES KUWAIT ON ‘HISTORIC STEP’

OF GRANTING WOMEN RIGHT TO VOTE, RUN FOR PARLIAMENT

 

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

UN IS WORK IN PROGRESS, MUST MOVE WITH THE TIMES, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

IN UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS

 

Following is the text of the commencement address delivered today in Philadelphia by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the University of Pennsylvania:  A Future “In Larger Freedom”: