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SG/SM/9823-ECO/82

UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE WORLD FREER, FAIRER, SAFER ‘MUST NOT BE MISSED’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN REMARKS TO FINANCE OFFICALS IN WASHINGTON

18/04/2005
Press Release
SG/SM/9823
ECO/82

UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE WORLD FREER, FAIRER, SAFER ‘MUST NOT BE MISSED’,

 

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN REMARKS TO FINANCE OFFICALS IN WASHINGTON

 


Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at a dinner with International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Committees, in Washington, D.C., on Saturday 16 April:

SG/SM/9822

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES DIALOGUE TO RESOLVE ECUADOR’S CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS

18/4/2005
Press Release
SG/SM/9822

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES DIALOGUE TO RESOLVE ECUADOR’S CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS


The following statement was issued on Saturday, 16 April, by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:


The Secretary-General is following with concern the latest developments in Ecuador.  The present crisis may aggravate an already unstable situation.

SG/SM/9817-GA/10341

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON ADOPTION OF INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON NUCLEAR TERRORISM

13/04/2005
Press Release
SG/SM/9817
GA/10341

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON ADOPTION

 

OF INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON NUCLEAR TERRORISM

 


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


The Secretary-General congratulates the General Assembly on its adoption today by consensus of the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism.

SG/SM/9816-PI/1639

IN MESSAGE TO ICT TASK FORCE MEETING IN DUBLIN, SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF ICT ‘TO HELP UNLOCK THE DOOR TO EDUCATION’

13/04/2005
Press Release
SG/SM/9816
PI/1639

IN MESSAGE TO ICT TASK FORCE MEETING IN DUBLIN, SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES


IMPORTANCE OF ICT ‘TO HELP UNLOCK THE DOOR TO EDUCATION’

 


Following is the message by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the eighth meeting of the United Nations Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Task Force, in Dublin, 13-14 April, delivered by José Antonio Ocampo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs:

SG/T/2442

ACTIVITIES OF SECRETARY GENERAL IN NORWAY, 10 - 11 APRIL

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and his wife Nane arrived in Oslo on Sunday evening, 10 April, where they had a private dinner with Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik and his wife.