UNITED STATES, UNITED NATIONS NEED EACH OTHER IN RELATIONSHIP OF 'PRODUCTIVE

INTERDEPENDENCE', SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN HEINZ FOUNDATION LECTURE

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Heinz Foundation Distinguished Lecture at the University of Pittsburgh, 21 October 2003:

Thank you, Mr. Johnson [Bill Johnson, Chairman of Heinz], for those very kind words.

UNITED STATES, UNITED NATIONS NEED EACH OTHER IN RELATIONSHIP OF ‘PRODUCTIVE

INTERDEPENDENCE’, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN HEINZ FOUNDATION LECTURE

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Heinz Foundation Distinguished Lecture at the University of Pittsburgh, 21 October 2003:

Thank you, Mr. Johnson [Bill Johnson, Chairman of Heinz], for those very kind words.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES DECLARATION ON IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME

Following is a statement issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MUST PUT PRESSURE ON PARTIES TO IMPLEMENT ROAD MAP

CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION, EFFECTIVELY IMPLEMENTED, CAN BE POWERFUL INSTRUMENT

AGAINST TERRORISM, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS CONFERENCE OF STATES PARTIES

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the eighth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention at The Hague today:

WORLD THAT DOES NOT OFFER FAIR CHANCE TO ALL ‘WILL BE NEITHER PROSPEROUS,

NOR PEACEFUL’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO 29^TH PIO MANZU CONFERENCE

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the twenty-ninth Pio Manzù international conference in Rimini, Italy, delivered on 19 October by Giandomenico Picco, Special Adviser and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General for the United Nations Dialogue among Civilizations:

SECRETARY-GENERAL HEARTENED BY CONSTITUTIONAL SOLUTION TO BOLIVIA CRISIS

The following statement was issued on 18 October by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES INCREASED SUPPORT FOR FINAL STAGE

OF

POLIO ERADICATION, IN MESSAGE TO KUALA LUMPUR SUMMIT

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES PEOPLE OF CHINA ON SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION

OF FIRST MANNED SPACE MISSION

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the conclusion of China’s first manned space flight:

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED AT DEATH OF MOKTAR OULD DADDAH,

FIRST PRESIDENT OF MAURITANIA

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the death of Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania: