Secretary-General: Press Release

Press Release
SG/A/737
PKO/92

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS MAJOR GENERAL TIM FORD AS MILITARY ADVISOR IN DEPARTMENT OF PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS

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

The Secretary-General has appointed Major General Tim Ford as Military Advisor in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations. The appointment will become effective on 15 September.

Press Release
SG/SM/7484
AFR/252

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXTREMELY CONCERNED ABOUT UNACCEPTABLE ENCIRCLEMENT OF 233 UN PEACEKEEPERS IN SIERRA LEONE

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

Press Release
SG/SM/7483
AFR/251

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES REPORT BY OAU-APPOINTED PANEL TO INVESTIGATE 1994 GENOCIDE IN RWANDA

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

Press Release
SG/SM/7482
AFR/250

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES THAT FUTURE OF AFRICA LIES IN ITS PEOPLE

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks today in Accra at the opening of an exhibition on United Nations Peacekeeping and presentation of the booklet: “Ghana: Four Decades of UN and Regional Peackeeping”:

On Tuesday, 4 July, the Secretary-General flew to Geneva, where he met in the late afternoon with his Special Envoy for the Balkans, Carl Bildt.

The Secretary-General flew from Budapest, Hungary, to Hanover, Germany, on Saturday, 1 July, where he was welcomed by Mayor Herbert Schmalstieg and signed the city’s Golden Book for visitors.

Press Release
SG/SM/7481

UNITED NATIONS LEGAL COUNSEL COMPLETES FORMAL DISCUSSIONS WITH CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT ON ESTABLISHMENT OF TRIBUNAL TO TRY KHMER ROUGE LEADERS

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

Press Release
SG/SM/7480

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ANNOUNCEMENT OF CAMP DAVID SUMMIT BETWEEN ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER AND CHAIRMAN YASSER ARAFAT

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

Press Release
SG/SM/7479

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR PRACTICAL, ACHIEVABLE PROGRAMME TO MAKE GLOBALIZATION A POSITIVE FORCE FOR ALL WORLD’S PEOPLE

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s inaugural address to Urban 21: Global Conference on the Urban Future, which he delivered yesterday in Berlin:

The Secretary-General left Warsaw by plane for Budapest in the afternoon of Wednesday, 28 June.