Secretary-General: Press Release

11 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7026/Rev.1*
SOC/NAR/802/Rev.1*

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS AND CROSS-BORDER NATURE OF DRUG ABUSE AND ILLICIT TRAFFICKING MAKE UN MOST SUITABLE FOR WAGING WAR

19990611

AGAINST THEM

Following is the text of the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the occasion of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, to be observed on 26 June:

11 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7026
SOC/NAR/802

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS AND CROSS-BORDER NATURE OF DRUG ABUSE AND ILLICIT TRAFFICKING MAKE UN MOST SUITABLE FOR WAGING WAR AGAINST THEM

19990611 Following is the text of the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the occasion of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, to be observed on 26 June:

11 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7025

UN FOUNDED ON BELIEF THAT WORLD CAN YIELD TO FORCES OF CHANGE, TOLERANCE, HOPE SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, ACCEPTING 'SEEDS OF PEACE' PRIZE

19990611 Following is the address of Secretary-General Kofi Annan upon receiving the 1999 Seeds of Peace Prize in New York on 10 June:

11 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7024

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS ESCALATION IN ATTACKS ON UN BLUE AND IN VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW IS DEEPLY TROUBLING PHENOMENON

19990611 Addressing Summit on Security of International Civil Service, Kofi Annan Stresses 'Safety and Security of Staff is Non-Negotiable Issue'

10 June 1999

Press Release
SG/T/2184

ACTIVITIES OF SECRETARY-GENERAL IN WASHINGTON, D.C., ON 8 JUNE

19990610 The Secretary-General travelled to Washington, D.C., in the afternoon of Tuesday, 8 June, to address the Board of Directors of the United States Chamber of Commerce.

In his speech, the Secretary-General emphasized that the United Nations needs the world's businessmen and businesswomen as full partners "in our global mission of peace and development".

10 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7023
SC/6687

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN COUNCIL MEETING ON KOSOVO, SAYS UN IS DETERMINED TO LEAD CIVILIAN IMPLEMENTATION OF PEACE EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY

19990610 Kofi Annan Says Resolution Gives Strong Legal Underpinning to Task Ahead; 'But Let us Not Be Triumphalist, for that Task is Indeed Daunting'

Following is the text of the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Security Council resolution on Kosovo adopted today:

8 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7022

SECRETARY-GENERAL, ADDRESSING UNITED STATES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, HIGHLIGHTS FUNDAMENTAL SHIFT OF UNITED NATIONS ATTITUDE TOWARDS PRIVATE SECTOR

19990608 Kofi Annan Says Business Community and United Nations Are Engaged In 'Something Larger than Ourselves': Human Security in Broadest Sense

Following is the text of the address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the United States Chamber of Commerce, in Washington, D.C., today:

8 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7021
OBV/98

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM WILL NOT LAG BEHIND IN SEARCH FOR CONCRETE SOLUTIONS TO DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT

19990608

Following is the text of a message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the occasion of World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, which will be observed on 17 June:

7 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7020
AFR/147

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN AT DETERIORATING HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN ANGOLA

19990607 The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

7 June 1999

Press Release
SG/2054