SECRETARY-GENERAL GRAVELY CONCERNED AT VIOLENCE IN BORDER AREA

OF FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS ADOLF OGI, FORMER PRESIDENT OF SWITZERLAND,

SPECIAL ADVISER ON SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES ALARM CONCERNING TALIBAN EDICT ORDERING

DESTRUCTION OF STATUES AND NON-ISLAMIC SHRINES

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for

Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES ON DEATH

OF GREAT AUSTRALIAN CRICKET PLAYER

Following is the text of a statement made today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the death of Australian cricketer, Sir Donald Bradman:

DAILY LIFE FOR MAJORITY OF WORLD’S WOMEN REMAINS DIFFICULT STRUGGLE,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSSAGE ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on International Women’s Day, which is observed 8 March:

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SPECIAL COMMITTEE ITS EFFORTS

HAVE LED TO PROGRESS ON DECOLONIZATION

Following is the text of remarks from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the opening of the 2001 session of the Special Committee on the Implementation of the Declaration on Decolonization (Special Committee of 24) in New York today:

This year, the opening of the session of the Special Committee of

SECRETARY-GENERAL NOTES RECENT PROGRESS IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO,

BUT SAYS GREAT CHALLENGES AHEAD, IN STATEMENT TO SECURITY COUNCIL

     Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the

21 February Security Council meeting with the Political Committee established by the July 1999 Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement on the peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo:

SECRETARY-GENERAL OUTLINES PRINCIPLES FOR UN EFFORTS IN PROMOTING DEMOCRACY

IN MESSAGE TO COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES SEMINAR

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, delivered on his behalf by his Special Adviser on Africa, Ibrahim Gambari, to the Community of Democracies Seminar in Washington, D.C., on 21 February:

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES VITAL ROLE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT FUND,

IN MESSAGE TO ROME MEETING OF GOVERNING COUNCIL

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the twenty-fourth session of the Governing Council of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), delivered on his behalf by the President of IFAD,

Fawzi Al-Sultan, in Rome on 20 February:

HUMAN TRAFFICKING ONE OF MOST EGREGIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO ABUJA CONFERENCE

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, delivered on his behalf by Mbaya Kankqenda, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Coordinator, to the first Pan-African Conference on Human Trafficking in Abuja, Nigeria, on 19 February: