INFORMATION AGE CREATES VAST OPPORTUNITIES, BUT ALSO GENERATES NEW ‘DIVIDES’,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO BANGKOK CONFERENCE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the first Conference of Ministers on “Information and Broadcasting in Asia and the Pacific”, delivered by Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, in Bangkok 27 May:

SECRETARY-GENERAL MOURNS INTERNATIONAL STAFF KILLED

IN PLANE CRASH FOLLOWING SERVICE IN AFGHANISTAN

The following statement was issued 26 May by the Spokesman for Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY SADDENED’ BY HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE

FOLLOWING ALGERIAN EARTHQUAKE, OFFERS UN ASSISTANCE

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEDGES UN SUPPORT TO IRAQ IN ‘COMPLEX AND DIFFICULT’

TASKS AHEAD, IN MESSAGE TO SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the text of remarks, as delivered, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to today’s Security Council meeting on “The Situation between Iraq and Kuwait” in New York:

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS WILLIAM LACY SWING AS NEW SPECIAL

REPRESENTATIVE FOR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

In a letter dated 16 May 2003, addressed to the President of the Security Council, the Secretary-General informed Council members of his intention to appoint William Lacy Swing of the United States to succeed Amos Namanga Ngongi as his Special Representative for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). 

‘ENVIRONMENT FOR EUROPE’ GOOD EXAMPLE OF CROSS-BORDER ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE TO KYIV CONFERENCE

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the fifth Ministerial Conference “Environment for Europe”, being held in Kyiv, Ukraine, 21-23 May, delivered by Brigita Schmögnerová, Executive Secretary, United NationsEconomic Commission for Europe:

‘PEACEKEEPING BY ITSELF CANNOT END WAR, BUT IT CAN HELP PREVENT A RECURRENCE

OF FIGHTING’, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN PEACEKEEPERS’ DAY MESSAGE

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, 29 May:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES ANGUILLA GATHERING TO WORK

TOWARDS COMPLETION OF DECOLONIZATION

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the opening of the Caribbean Regional Seminar on Decolonization and the observance of the week of solidarity with the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories, at The Valley, Anguilla, 20-22 May:

LASTING PEACE AND SECURITY IN CENTRAL AFRICA STILL SLOW

IN ARRIVING, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

(Delayed for translation of text, originally delivered in French.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL DISAPPOINTED AT FAILURE BY INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT,

FREE ACEH MOVEMENT TO IMPLEMENT CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES AGREEMENT

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