MAJOR GENERAL HERMANN K. LOIDOLT APPOINTED CHIEF MILITARY OBSERVER

IN UNITED NATIONS MILITARY OBSERVER GROUP IN INDIA AND PAKISTAN

Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced today the appointment of Major General Hermann K. Loidolt of Austria as Chief Military Observer in the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) to succeed Major General Saavedra whose contract expired on 10 July.

BOTH SIDES MUST MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO RESTORE CEASEFIRE,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS MADRID MEETING ON MIDDLE EAST

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES PAKISTAN, INDIA TO PERSEVERE

IN EFFORTS TO ESTABLISH DIALOGUE

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

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Munich from Lusaka, Zambia, early in the morning of Wednesday, 11 July.

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN

AT INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION, GENEVA, 16 JULY 2001

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY DEPLORES ABDUCTION OF FORMER COLOMBIAN OFFICIAL,

DEMANDS HIS IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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

IN GENEVA ADDRESS TO 2001 SUBSTANTIVE SESSION OF ECOSOC, SECRETARY-GENERAL

SEES POSSIBLE ‘TURNING POINT IN AFRICA’S HISTORY’

Following is the text of the address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the high-level segment of the 2001 substantive session of the Economic and Social Council in Geneva:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN BERLIN, CALLS INTOLERANCE ‘A MANY-HEADED MONSTER’,

ASKS GERMANY TO PLAY ACTIVE PART IN DURBAN RACISM CONFERENCE

   Following is the text of today’s address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Freie Universität, Berlin:

Secretary-General Kofi Annan departed New York on Friday, 6 July.  He arrived in Zambia on the 8^th, after a rest stop in Europe.

SECRETARY-GENERAL INITIATES INVESTIGATION CONCERNING UNIFIL VIDEOTAPE

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