INDICTMENTS FOR ‘CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY’ FILED IN TIMOR-LESTE

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY CONCERNED’ BY ISRAEL’S AIR ATTACK IN GAZA,

RESULTING IN DEATHS OF SEVEN PALESTINIANS

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

‘TO EDUCATE GIRLS IS TO REDUCE POVERTY’ SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

IN MESSAGE TO GLOBAL EDUCATION CAMPAIGN EVENT

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message for “The World’s Biggest Lesson” held during the Global Action Week of the Global Campaign for Education, at Headquarters 9 April:

To educate girls is to reduce poverty. That is the lesson that unites us today.

DR. CARLO URBANI ‘A HERO -- IN THE BEST AND TRUEST SENSE OF WORD’

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO MEMORIAL SERVICE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the memorial service for Dr. Carlo Urbani, delivered on his behalf by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Coordinator, Jordan Ryan, in Hanoi, 8 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL INFORMS SECURITY COUNCIL OF APPOINTMENT

OF RAFEEUDDIN AHMED AS SPECIAL ADVISER

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY DISTURBED’ AT REPORTS OF MASSACRES IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO; DEMANDS RESPECT FOR CIVILIANS’ HUMAN RIGHTS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES EFFORTS OF INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION

TO PROVIDE GREATER SUPPORT TO UNITED NATIONS

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the 108^th Inter-Parliamentary Conference in Santiago de Chile, as delivered by José Antonio Ocampo, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC):

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES CÔTE D’IVOIRE AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT

OF RECONCILIATION AS ‘MAJOR PROGRESS TOWARDS PEACE’

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the agreement establishing a government of reconciliation in Côte d’Ivoire, delivered on his behalf by his Special Representative, General Albert Tévoedjré, in Yamoussoukro on 3 April:

RAFEEUDDIN AHMED NAMED SPECIAL ADVISER BY SECRETARY-GENERAL

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES CÔTE D’IVOIRE AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT

OF RECONCILIATION AS ‘MAJOR PROGRESS TOWARDS PEACE’

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the agreement establishing a government of reconciliation in Côte d’Ivoire, delivered on his behalf by his Special Representative, General Albert Tévoedjré, in Yamoussoukro on 3 April: