SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS CLOSED ISRAELI MILITARY ZONE IN OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN

TERRITORY ‘CAN ONLY UNDERMINE’ PEACE EFFORTS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES ASSEMBLY TO RESPOND TO 11 SEPTEMBER ATTACKS

BY REAFFIRMING RULE OF LAW

Following is the text of the address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September:

Two weeks ago, as you will all remember, we were looking forward to this day, as the day when we would begin our General Debate.

SECRETARY-GENERAL MEETS CHRISPUS KIYONGA, CHAIRMAN OF TRANSITIONAL

WORKING GROUP ON GLOBAL AIDS AND HEALTH FUND

REPORT OF SECRETARY-GENERAL ON WORK OF ORGANIZATION

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES PALESTINIAN CEASEFIRE ORDER; ISRAELI

DECISION TO HALT OFFENSIVE MILITARY OPERATIONS

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

                                                            SG/SM/7962/Rev.1*

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO MINE-BAN CONVENTION PARTIES,

EVOKES ‘ENORMOUS’ CHALLENGES STILL AHEAD

Following is the text of the message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Third Meeting of the States Parties to the Mine-Ban Convention.  The message was delivered in Managua on the Secretary-General’s behalf today by Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, Jayantha Dhanapala:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES RESUMPTION OF INTER-KOREAN DIALOGUE

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY ASSASSINATION OF KEY AFGHAN LEADER,

SAYS ACT OF TERRORISM FURTHER COMPLICATES EFFORTS TO END CONFLICT

NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT PROGRESS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT AFTER TERRORIST ATTACK

ON UNITED STATES SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY MEETING

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the forty-fifth General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), delivered by Steinar Bjornsson, Deputy-Director, United Nations Office at Vienna, on 17 September: