IN MESSAGE FOR WORLD TELECOMMUNICATION DAY, SECRETARY-GENERAL

CALLS FOR ‘TRULY GLOBAL INFORMATION SOCIETY’ BENEFITING ALL

Following is the message by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for World Telecommunications Day, 17 May 2005:

FRANÇOIS LONSENY FALL APPOINTED SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE

 

OF SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR SOMALIA

 

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has designated François Lonseny Fall as his Special Representative for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS).  Mr. Fall will assume his duties later this month in Nairobi, Kenya, where the Office is currently located.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES NEW LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING AMONG UN, ISRAEL,

JEWISH COMMUNITIES WORLDWIDE, IN REMARKS TO INTERNATIONAL DELEGATION

Following are the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks to the International Delegation of Jewish Leadership in New York, 2 May:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES LIFTING OF STATE OF EMERGENCY IN NEPAL,

URGES RELEASE OF ALL DETAINED UNDER EMERGENCY PROVISIONS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPALLED BY WAVE OF BOMBINGS, ATTACKS IN IRAQ,

HOPES IRAQIS WILL NOT BE DETERRED FROM REBUILDING

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

PRESS FREEDOM CENTRAL TO ENLARGING FREEDOM FOR ALL,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE ON WORLD DAY

Following is United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on World Press Freedom Day observed on 3 May:

NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY ‘CORNERSTONE’ OF GLOBAL SECURITY BUT CONFERENCE

MUST NARROW GAP BETWEEN PERFORMANCE, PROMISE, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following is the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York, 2 May:

DEMOCRACY, DEVELOPMENT REINFORCE EACH OTHER, AS DO DEMOCRACY, PEACE,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO SANTIAGO MINISTERIAL MEETING

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Third Ministerial Meeting of the Community of Democracies, delivered by Ernesto Zedillo, former President of Mexico and Envoy of the Secretary-General for the September 2005 Summit, in Santiago, 28 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS JOAQUIM ALBERTO CHISSANO

SPECIAL ENVOY FOR GUINEA-BISSAU

CONTINUED ASSISTANCE CRUCIAL TO TIMOR-LESTE’S LONG-TERM SECURITY, STABILITY,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO DILI MEETING

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the International Symposium on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste:  Accomplishments and Lessons Learned, in Dili, 28-29 April: