SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES GATES FOUNDATION CONTRIBUTION TO GLOBAL AIDS FUND

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

WAR LESS LIKELY BETWEEN MATURE DEMOCRACIES, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

IN LECTURE AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY

Yet Sometimes Reluctance of Democracies to Fight

Or Take Risks Can Be Handicap When Action in Just Cause Is Really Needed

Following is the text of the Cyril Foster Lecture, "Why Democracy Is an International Issue", delivered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at Oxford University, United Kingdom, on 19 June:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS ‘HEINOUS’ TARGETING OF RELIEF FLIGHTS IN ANGOLA

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

The Secretary-General strongly condemns the attack in Angola on Friday

15 June against two World Food Programme-chartered planes, which were en route to Kuito with food supplies.  Fortunately, there were no casualties.

REFUGEES ‘ARE THE GREAT SURVIVORS OF OUR TIME’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

IN SALUTE TO WORLD REFUGEE DAY

Following is the text of the message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan on World Refugee Day, 20 June:

‘BOTH SIDES NEED HELP OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY’, SECRETARY-GENERAL

TELLS PARIS MEDIA ENCOUNTER ON PALESTINE

Following is the text of the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the International Media Encounter on the Question of Palestine delivered on his behalf by Shashi Tharoor, Interim Head of the Department of Public Information:

SECRETARY-GENERAL DISTURBED BY REPORTS OF ANTI-CIVILIAN VIOLENCE,

CONTINUED HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN AFGHANISTAN

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES RELEASE OF POLITICAL DETAINEES IN MYANMAR

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

IN MESSAGE TO LATIN AMERICAN MEETING ON PALESTINE, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

'THERE CAN BE NO MILITARY SOLUTION TO THIS CONFLICT'

Following is the text of a message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the United Nations Latin American and Caribbean meeting on the question of Palestine, delivered by Danilo Türk, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, in Havana on 12 June:

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES HOPE THAT INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

WILL SUPPORT SIERRA LEONE DISARMAMENT PROGRAMME

IN MESSAGE HONOURING RAPHAEL LEMKIN, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS HIS LIFEWORK

‘AN INSPIRING EXAMPLE OF MORAL ENGAGEMENT’

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the ceremony honouring Raphael Lemkin, delivered by Mrs. Nane Annan:

It gives me great pleasure to send my greetings to all who have gathered for this ceremony honouring the legacy of Raphael Lemkin.