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NO COUNTRY -- RICH OR POOR -- IMMUNE TO CORRUPTION, PUBLIC GOOD ALWAYS SUFFERS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO BRASILIA FORUM

07/06/2005
Press Release
SG/SM/9915
SOC/CP/339

NO COUNTRY -- RICH OR POOR -- IMMUNE TO CORRUPTION, PUBLIC GOOD ALWAYS SUFFERS,


SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO BRASILIA FORUM

 


Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the fourth Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity, delivered by Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in Brasilia, 7 June:

SG/SM/9912

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS NEPAL BUS BOMBING

06/06/2005
Press Release
SG/SM/9912

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS NEPAL BUS BOMBING


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

SG/SM/9909-GA/10353

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT’S DRAFT OUTCOME FOR 2005 SUMMIT IS VALUABLE GUIDEPOST FOR ADVANCING DEVELOPMENT, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

3/6/2005
Press Release
SG/SM/9909
GA/10353

General Assembly president’s draft outcome for 2005 summit is valuable guidepost


for advancing development, security, human rights, Secretary-General says


Following is a statement by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the General Assembly President’s draft outcome for the 2005 summit:

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‘LET US CREATE GREEN CITIES’, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN VIDEO MESSAGE FOR WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY

02/06/2005
Press Release
SG/SM/9908
ENV/DEV/860
OBV/490

‘LET US CREATE GREEN CITIES’, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

 

IN VIDEO MESSAGE FOR WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY

 


Following is the text of the video message by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for World Environment Day, 5 June:


As human beings, we are bound by our common humanity.


And like all species on Earth, we are bound by our common dependence on the environment.