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SG/SM/9126/Rev.1*

GENOCIDE IS THREAT TO PEACE REQUIRING STRONG, UNITED ACTION, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL FORUM

11/02/2004
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SG/SM/9126/Rev.1*


GENOCIDE IS THREAT TO PEACE REQUIRING STRONG, UNITED ACTION,


SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL FORUM

Following is the address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, as delivered to the Stockholm International Forum in Stockholm, Sweden, on 26 January 2004:


There can be no more important issue, and no more binding obligation, than the prevention of genocide.

SG/SM/9153

IN MESSAGE TO ARAB LEAGUE – UN SYSTEM MEETING, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS REFORMS URGENTLY NEEDED TO GENERATE GROWTH, CREATE JOBS

10/02/2004
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SG/SM/9153


IN MESSAGE TO ARAB LEAGUE – UN SYSTEM MEETING, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS


REFORMS URGENTLY NEEDED TO GENERATE GROWTH, CREATE JOBS


Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the General Cooperation Meeting between the League of Arab States and the United Nations System, Cairo, 10-13 February, delivered by Mervat Tallawy, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia:

SG/SM/9152-ECO/54

THROUGH GLOBAL COMPACT, BUSINESS CAN JOIN WITH OTHERS TO FIND SOLUTION TO POVERTY, SOCIAL INJUSTICE, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS CEREMONY LAUNCHING COMPACT IN EGYPT

09/02/2004
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SG/SM/9152
ECO/54


THROUGH GLOBAL COMPACT, BUSINESS CAN JOIN WITH OTHERS TO FIND SOLUTION TO POVERTY,


SOCIAL INJUSTICE, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS CEREMONY LAUNCHING COMPACT IN EGYPT


Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the ceremony launching the Global Compact in Egypt, delivered by S. Iqbal Riza, Chef de Cabinet, Executive Office of the Secretary-General, in Cairo today:

SG/SM/9150-AFR/828-DEV/2462

UN STRONGLY COMMITTED TO WORKING WITH LIBERIANS TO ESTABLISH RULE OF LAW, PROMOTE TRANSPARENCY, PURSUE JUSTICE, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS RECONSTRUCTION CONFERENCE

06/02/2004
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SG/SM/9150
AFR/828
DEV/2462


UN STRONGLY COMMITTED TO WORKING WITH LIBERIANS TO ESTABLISH RULE OF LAW, PROMOTE


TRANSPARENCY, PURSUE JUSTICE, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS RECONSTRUCTION CONFERENCE


Following is the text of opening remarks, as delivered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the International Reconstruction Conference on Liberia, in New York today:

SG/SM/9148

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY CONCERNED’ ABOUT INCREASING VIOLENCE IN HAITI

06/02/2004
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SG/SM/9148


SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY CONCERNED’ ABOUT INCREASING VIOLENCE IN HAITI


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


The Secretary-General has been closely following the situation in Haiti and is deeply concerned about the increasing violence.  Yesterday’s events in the city of Gonaives constitute a further escalation in the violence that is affecting the country.