PRESS FREEDOM CENTRAL TO ENLARGING FREEDOM FOR ALL,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE ON WORLD DAY

Following is United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on World Press Freedom Day observed on 3 May:

NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY ‘CORNERSTONE’ OF GLOBAL SECURITY BUT CONFERENCE

MUST NARROW GAP BETWEEN PERFORMANCE, PROMISE, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following is the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York, 2 May:

DEMOCRACY, DEVELOPMENT REINFORCE EACH OTHER, AS DO DEMOCRACY, PEACE,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO SANTIAGO MINISTERIAL MEETING

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Third Ministerial Meeting of the Community of Democracies, delivered by Ernesto Zedillo, former President of Mexico and Envoy of the Secretary-General for the September 2005 Summit, in Santiago, 28 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS JOAQUIM ALBERTO CHISSANO

SPECIAL ENVOY FOR GUINEA-BISSAU

CONTINUED ASSISTANCE CRUCIAL TO TIMOR-LESTE’S LONG-TERM SECURITY, STABILITY,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO DILI MEETING

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the International Symposium on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste:  Accomplishments and Lessons Learned, in Dili, 28-29 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN NEW DELHI LECTURE, SAYS UN REFORM AIMS TO ENHANCE FREEDOM

THROUGH PURSUIT OF DEVELOPMENT, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS GOALS

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s public lecture at the India International Centre, entitled “In Larger Freedom -- the changing role of the United Nations”, in New Delhi, 28 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ESTABLISHMENT OF IRAQ’S TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES CÔTE D’IVOIRE PRESIDENT’S ANNOUNCEMENT

ON ELIGIBILITY OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL GRAVELY CONCERNED BY VIOLENCE FOLLOWING TOGO ELECTIONS,

REITERATES URGENT APPEAL FOR CALM

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

LATIN AMERICA’S TREATY PROHIBITING NUCLEAR WEAPONS ‘INSPIRING LANDMARK’

 

FOR DISARMAMENT, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO MEXICO MEETING

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Conference of States Parties and Signatories of Treaties that Establish Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones, in Tlatelolco, Mexico, 26-28 April: