Secretary-General: Press Release

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ARREST WARRANTS, FIRST FROM INTERNATIONAL

CRIMINAL COURT, AS ‘POWERFUL SIGNAL AROUND WORLD’

Five Leaders of Lord’s Resistance Army Accused

Of Crimes against Humanity in Northern Uganda since July 2002

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY SADDENED AT DEATH OF JOKE WALLER-HUNTER,

EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF UN CLIMATE CHANGE CONVENTION

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN REMARKS TO IBERO-AMERICAN BUSINESS, CIVIC MEETING,

LAUDS ‘GREAT STRIDES’ IN RECOGNIZING MARKET-STATE COMPLEMENTARITY

Focus on Macroeconomic Polices Not Enough,

He Says, Stressing Need for Adequate Funding of Social Policies

SECRETARY-GENERAL, ADDRESSING IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT , NOTES ‘DELICATE BALANCE’

OF TREMENDOUS PROMISE, URGENT PERILS IN TODAY’S WORLD

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the Ibero-American Summit, delivered today in Salamanca:

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Lisbon in the afternoon of Tuesday, 11 October.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, after arriving in Geneva on Thursday morning, 6 October, addressed the Executive Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the first such meeting since António Guterres took up his duties as head of the organization.

COMMITMENTS MADE AT WORLD SUMMIT REPRESENT BREAKTHROUGH IN FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN INTERNATIONAL DAY MESSAGE

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, observed on 17 October:

AT CRITICAL MOMENT IN IRAQ ’S HISTORY, EVERY VOTE COUNTS, SECRETARY-GENERAL

TELLS IRAQIS ON NATIONAL CONSTITUTION DAY

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Iraqi people on National Constitution Day (13 October), issued today in Lisbon:

WORLD SUMMIT ACHIEVED CONCRETE, SIGNIFICANT GAINS IN HUMAN RIGHTS, RULE OF LAW,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN ADDRESS TO UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA

Following is the address delivered today by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (The New University of Lisbon):

SECRETARY-GENERAL DELIGHTED WITH CONDUCT OF LIBERIAN ELECTIONS

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