SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS UN, EUROPEAN UNION NATURAL PARTNERS

IN MULTILATERAL SYSTEM AS EUROPE CELEBRATES ENLARGEMENT

The following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the occasion of European Union enlargement, delivered in New York, yesterday, 3 May, by Shashi Tharoor, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Public Information and Communications:

Secretary-General says failure to stop biodiversity loss

toO awful to contemplate

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the occasion of the International Day for Biological Diversity, on 22 May:

Secretary-General urges all to recognize and support contributions of family,

in message on international day of families

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the occasion of the International Day of Families, 15 May:

Secretary-General, in message to mark world press freedom day,

stresses need to get out good news, as well as bad

The following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks on World Press Freedom Day, in New York today, 3 May 2004:

if evil must be named, it is ‘intolerance, exclusion’,

Secretary-General tells trinity institute conference

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the thirty-fifth National Conference of the Trinity Institute, in New York, 2 May:

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS UNAIDS GLOBAL STAFF MEETING THAT PANDEMIC,

WHILE UNPRECEDENTED, IS NOT INSURMOUNTABLE

The following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s video message to the global staff meeting of UNAIDS at Martigny, 2-5 May:

I am so glad that you have all come together to take stock at this critical time in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Secretary-General urges united local government body to address

needs of slum dwellers, challenge of good urban governance

The following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Founding Congress of United Cities and Local Governments, delivered in Paris, on 2 May by Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director, United Nations Human Settlements Programme:

Secretary-General ‘deeply disturbed’ by media pictures

of iraqi prisoners being mistreated

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

‘the more unified you are, the stronger you are’, says Secretary-General

in remarks on developing country group’s 40^th anniversary

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at a luncheon on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the “Group of 77” developing countries and China, in New York, 29 April:

Thank you, Ambassador Al Nasser, for bringing us together today.

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN

AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, ON 28 APRIL 2004

The Secretary-General:  Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.  I am sure you all followed Lakhdar Brahimi’s presentation to the Security Council yesterday and his assessment of the chances of success in the political process in Iraq, given the deteriorating security situation.