ROBUST CAPACITY-BUILDING VITAL FOR RULE-OF-LAW ASSISTANCE TO POST-CONFLICT

SOCIETIES, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE TO CRIME PREVENTION CONGRESS

Creation of Dedicated Assistance Unit Will Help

Societies Emerging from Instability, He Tells Bangkok Meeting

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:

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.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS VIOLENCE AGAINST UN PERSONNEL,

 

FOLLOWING KILLING OF PEACEKEEPER IN HAITI

 

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES JAMES WOLFENSOHN’S APPOINTMENT

 

BY QUARTET AS SPECIAL ENVOY FOR GAZA DISENGAGEMENT

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

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN AND SPECIAL ENVOY

BILL CLINTON AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, 13 APRIL 2005

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONCERNED BY MOUNTING TENSIONS

 

IN GUINEA-BISSAU IN ADVANCE OF JUNE ELECTIONS

 

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

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.

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:

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.