SECRETARY-GENERAL CITES SECURITY COUNCIL’S ‘CRISIS OF CREDIBILITY’

AS COUNCIL MEETS TO FOLLOW UP 2000 SUMMIT DECLARATION

Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council, as it met today in New York to follow up on its 7 September 2000 Summit:

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES SADNESS AT DEATH OF US STATESMAN, HAROLD STASSEN

Following is the text of a statement issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

UNITED NATIONS TO SEND INTER-AGENCY MISSION TO WEST AFRICA

The Secretary-General has decided to dispatch an inter-agency mission to West Africa, from 6 to 26 March, led by Ibrahima Fall, Assistant Secretary-General, Department of Political Affairs.  The mission will visit Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.

SECRETARY-GENERAL ASKS UNITED STATES GEOGRAPHERS TO WORK WITH HIM TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE PROBLEMS, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Following is the text of an address made today by the Secretary-General to the Association of American Geographers:

SECRETARY-GENERAL DISMAYED AT OUTBREAK OF RENEWED FIGHTING IN BURUNDI

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

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CRISIS, SECURITY CRISIS, AND CRISIS IN CONFIDENCE IN MIDDLE

EAST MUST BE ADDRESSED SIMULTANEOUSLY, SECRETAY-GENERAL TELLS COMMITTEE

Following is the text of a statement made this morning by Secretary-General

Kofi Annan at the opening of the 2001 session of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People:

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: