Heads of six main organs of United Nations hold annual meeting

for overall review of current challenges

 

Secretary-General, Five Presidents Discuss Developments

On UN Reform, Improving Coordination, Preparations for Major Events of 2005

no conflict is too remote to affect local environment, Secretary-General says

in message to mark international day to prevent exploitation

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflicts to be observed on 6 November:

Secretary-General presents plan for strengthened, unified UN security,

saying staff ‘has to be my first priority’

 

Following are the remarks delivered today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) on staff security:

Secretary-General Endorses statement condemning Tel Aviv suicide bombing

 

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

private sector should be alive to growing opportunities in Africa,

Secretary-General tells Tokyo Investment Conference

Following is the text of the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Asia-Africa Investment and trade Conference in Tokyo, 1-2 November, delivered by Ibrahim Gambari, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Africa:

Secretary-General distressed at deaths of two Palestinian children

in occupied territory

 

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

Secretary-General condemns violence in Liberia’s Capital

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

Secretary-General welcomes treaty establishing constitution for Europe,

 

says ‘major milestone’ in construction of European Union

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

The Secretary-General welcomes the signature in Rome today, by heads of State and government of the European Union, of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.

Secretary-General Deeply Dismayed at Abduction of three UN staff in Afghanistan

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

The Secretary-General today learned with deep regret and dismay that three international staff contracted by the UN Development Programme were abducted from a UN vehicle at approximately 1:00 in the afternoon, local time, in Kabul, Afghanistan.

There has never been more pressing need to engage in constructive debate, heal

 

divisions, Secretary-General tells national institute of social sciences

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks on receiving the National Institute of Social Sciences Gold Medal on 27 October in New York:

Thank you, Arthur [Ross], for those kind words.