SPREAD OF TERRORISM THREAT TO VERY FOUNDATIONS OF UNITED NATIONS

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO LISBON ANTI-TERRORISM MEETING

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, delivered on his behalf by Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Danilo Turk, to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) High-level Conference on Preventing and Combating Terrorism in Lisbon, Portugal, on 12 June:

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SECRETARY-GENERAL NAMES MOUSTAPHA NIASSE (SENEGAL) SPECIAL ENVOY TO FACILITATE

AGREEMENT ON POWER SHARING DURING TRANSITION IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Secretary-General Kofi Annan left Moscow on Thursday morning, 6 June, and flew to Geneva, arriving at midday.

ANTI-DESERTIFICATION CONVENTION KEY ELEMENT IN QUEST FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL ON WORLD DAY TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, which is observed 17 June:

Desertification and drought pose a worldwide threat with serious economic, environmental and socio-political implications.

‘NO TIME TO WASTE’ IF GOAL OF HALVING POVERTY BY 2015 TO BE REACHED,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS ROME FOOD SUMMIT

Following is the address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the World Food Summit in Rome, 10 June 2002:

GLOBALIZATION’S CHALLENGES MAKE WELL-ORGANIZED STATES MORE NECESSARY, NOT LESS

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO GENEVA CONFERENCE

Following is the keynote address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Conference on Globalization and International Relations in the Twenty-first Century, delivered on 7 June at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva:

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Moscow from Kiev early in the afternoon of Tuesday 4 June.

The Secretary-General departed New York for Ukraine on Saturday, 1 June.

SECRETARY-GENERAL, ACCEPTING MOSCOW AWARD, SAYS STRENGTH OF RUSSIAN SPIRIT

‘IS YOUR COUNTRY’S GREATEST NATURAL ASSET’

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on receiving the Commemorative Medal of Prince Gorchakov, Moscow, 5 June:

I am deeply honoured by this award -- and doubly so since I am the first non-Russian to receive it.