TSUNAMI CONFIRMED INCREASING TOLL OF DEATHS FROM NATURAL DISASTERS,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE TO KOBE WORLD CONFERENCE

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s video message to the World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, being held from 18 to 22 January:

Secretary-General, addressing General Assembly meeting on tsunami disaster,

underlines need to focus on longer-term recovery, reconstruction

Urging Unity in Healing Old Wounds, Long-Running Conflicts,

He Calls Moment Opportunity, Reminder to Address Other Emergencies

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS ANN M. VENEMAN, UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE,

AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN’S FUND (UNICEF)

Following consultations with the UNICEF Executive Board, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today announced the appointment of Ann M. Veneman, Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture, as the new Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Mauritius from the Maldives islands on Monday, 10 January.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in the Maldive islands on Sunday, 9 January, from Sri Lanka. It was the third and last of the earthquake- and tsunami-affected countries he would visit on this trip.

DEVELOPMENT GOALS NOT UTOPIAN, BUT EMINENTLY ACHIEVABLE, SECRETARY-GENERAL

 

SAYS AT LAUNCH OF MILLENNIUM PROJECT REPORT

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the launch of the report of the Millennium Project in New York, today, 17 January:

It is indeed a great pleasure to accept the final report of the Millennium Project.

This is an important and impressive document.

representatives of greece, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia meet

 

under Secretary-General’s auspices

 

Following is the text of a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS PALESTINIAN TERROR ATTACK ON ISRAELI CIVILIANS

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

The Secretary-General condemns the Palestinian terror attack that caused the death of six Israeli civilians and injury to four others at the Karni crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip yesterday evening.  He wishes to express his deepest condolences to the families of those killed and injured.

Secretary-General calls for high-level political commitment to marine conservation

in meeting on reefs, island communities, protected areas

 

Creation of Token Havens Without Enforcement

Not Enough Amid Continuing Exploitation Elsewhere, He Says

SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT MAURITIUS HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT, STRESSES IMPORTANCE

OF PREVENTION, EARLY WARNING TO COVER GLOBAL THREATS

 

We Must Come Together Ahead of Calamity,

He Tells SmallIslands Forum in Wake of Tsunami Devastation