Secretary-General: Press Release

CLEAR CONSENSUS NEEDED ON GLOBAL THREATS, CHALLENGES SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL,

IN REMARKS TO BROOKING INSTITUTION BOARD

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at dinner with the Board of Trustees of the Brookings Institution in New York, 1 March:

NEW REPORT AIMS AT UNLEASHING ENTREPRENEURIAL, CREATIVE POTENTIAL IN DEVELOPING

COUNTRIES, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT HEADQUARTERS LAUNCH

Following are Secretary General Kofi Annan’s remarks at a press briefing for the launch of the report of the Commission on the Private Sector and Development in New York, on 1 March:

SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS HEROIC WOMEN LEADING FIGHT IN HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC, SAYS

THEIR FURTHER EMPOWERMENT KEY TO GLOBAL RESPONSE, IN WOMEN’S DAY MESSAGE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on International Women’s Day, which is observed 8 March:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONCERNED BY ALARMING DETERIORATION

OF SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS IN HAITI

The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 27 February:

SECRETARY-GENERAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO DEVOTION, HONESTY, GENEROSITY OF LATE JEAN-SÉLIM

KANAAN, AS FRANCE HONOURS UN STAFF MEMBER WITH POSTHUMOUS LEGION OF HONOUR

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, translated from French, on the occasion of the posthumous award of the Legion of Honour to Jean-Sélim Kanaan, read by Iqbal Riza, Chef de Cabinet, in Geneva, 27 February:

SECRETARY-GENERAL OFFERS UN’S CONTINUED COMMITMENT AS AFRICAN UNION

BEGINS CONSOLIDATING COMMON STRATEGY FOR PEACE, SECURITY

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the extraordinary session of the Assembly of the African Union, in Sirte, 27 February, delivered by Tuliameni Kalomoh, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs.

STRENGTHENED UN PRESENCE IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE WILL FACILITATE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE,

RESTORATION OF STATE AUTHORITY, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council meeting on Côte d’Ivoire today:

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY TRAGIC DEATH OF PRESIDENT

OF FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

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

The Secretary-General learned with deep sadness of the tragic death of the President of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Boris Trajkovski, and members of his delegation in a plane crash today.

UNITED NATIONS ‘DISAPPOINTED’ IF MEDIA REPORTS OF BRITISH SPYING TRUE;

SAYS SUCH ACTS UNDERMINE DIPLOMATIC INTEGRITY, CONFIDENTIALITY

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

We have seen today’s media reports alleging that the Secretary-General’s phone conversations were tapped by British intelligence.  We would be disappointed if this were true.

Biographical Note                                         

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS JOHN REGINALD DUMAS OF TRINIDAD

AND TOBAGO SPECIAL ADVISER ON HAITI