CONCERNED BY UPSURGE OF VIOLENCE IN NIGER, SECRETARY-GENERAL

CALLS FOR UNCONDITIONAL RESPECT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER

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

The Secretary-General is very concerned by the upsurge of violence in the Niger, resulting from a spate of mutinies by segments of the armed forces in different parts of the country in recent days.

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS CATHERINE BERTINI AS PERSONAL HUMANITARIAN ENVOY

Following is the statement issued by Secretary-General Kofi Annan today on his appointment of Catherine Bertini as his Personal Humanitarian Envoy:

SECRETARY-GENERAL'S SPECIAL ENVOY LEAVES MYANMAR AFTER FIVE-DAY MISSION

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL SENDS SPECIAL ENVOY TO GAMBIA, GUINEA-BISSAU BACK TO REGION

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

SECERTARY-GENERAL'S STATEMENT ON ATTACKS IN ISRAEL

Following is a statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan following the weekend attacks in Israel:

SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES UN COMMITMENT TO ASPIRATIONS

OF LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Ministerial Meeting of the Least Developed Countries, to be delivered by Anwarul K. Chowdhury, High Representative of the Secretary-General for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, in Cotonou, Benin, 5 August:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS HUMAN TRAFFICKING ‘ONE OF THE GREATEST

HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS’ OF TODAY

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the International Summit on Human Trafficking, Child Abuse, Labour and Slavery, to be delivered by Antonio Maria Costa, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna and Executive Director of the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, Abuja, Nigeria, 2-4 August 2002:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES ISRAEL NOT TO TAKE ACTIONS

'INCONSISTENT WITH INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW'

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

SPECIAL ENVOY FOR MYANMAR TO REVISIT YANGON, 2 - 6 AUGUST

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

Razali Ismail, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Myanmar, will return to Yangon from 2 to 6 August 2002 to help facilitate the national reconciliation process in Myanmar.

FOLLOWING HEBREW UNIVERSITY BOMB ATTACK, SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES

CONDEMNATION OF ‘ALL SUCH ATTACKS’ AGAINST CIVILIANS

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

The Secretary-General is appalled by today's bomb attack at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in which seven people were killed and more than