VIOLENCE WILL NOT PRODUCE SECURITY OR LASTING PEACE, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL,

FOLLOWING LATEST ESCALATION IN MIDDLE EAST

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

IRAQ CRISIS MUST NOT AFFECT DETERMINATION TO CARRY OUT UN’S WIDER AGENDA,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN ROME ADDRESS

Following is the address of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Governing Council of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, on its twenty-fifth anniversary, in Rome on 19 February:

Secretary-General Kofi Annan departed New York on Sunday, 16 February, for Brussels, where he arrived, via Paris, the following morning.

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS BEHROOZ SADRY OF IRAN DEPUTY SPECIAL

REPRESENTATIVE FOR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

UNITED NATIONS IS VALUABLE ALLY, INSTRUMENT IN STRUGGLE FOR PEACE,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS PEACE PRIZE FESTIVAL AND FORUM

QUARTET ‘ROAD MAP’ AIMS AT ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN STATES IN MIDEAST,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE

Following is the text of the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the opening meeting of the 2003 session of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, delivered by his Chef de Cabinet,

S. Iqbal Riza:

LITERACY IS KEY TO A FUTURE OF FREEDOM AND HOPE FOR MANKIND

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT LAUNCH OF UN LITERACY DECADE

      Following is the text of the remarks delivered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at a ceremony held on Thursday evening, 13 February, at the New York Public Library, to mark the launch of the United Nations Literacy Decade (2003-2012):

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ANNOUNCEMENT BY PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY

PRESIDENT ARAFAT TO APPOINT PRIME MINISTER

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL ANNOUNCES ESTABLISHMENT OF PANEL OF EMINENT PERSONS

ON UN RELATIONS WITH CIVIL SOCIETY

Following is today’s statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the establishment of the Panel of Eminent Persons on United Nations Relations with Civil Society:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, CONCERNED BY VIOLENCE IN BOLIVIA,

APPEALS FOR DIALOGUE, RESPECT FOR DEMOCRACY

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

The Secretary-General is concerned about the violent incidents that took place in Bolivia yesterday and deplores the loss of life.