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SG/SM/9690
25/01/2005
Press Release
SG/SM/9690

DISARMAMEnT IS CRITICAL FOR CONFLICT PREVENTION, PEACE-BUILDING, REALIZING


MILLENNIUM GOALS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT


Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, to be delivered on 27 January by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General,United Nations Office at Geneva:

SG/SM/9689
25/01/2005
Press Release
SG/SM/9689

‘We must face up to what happened in the camps’, Secretary-General says

 

at opening of Auschwitz exhibit


Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the opening of the exhibition “Auschwitz -- The Depth of the Abyss” to commemorate the liberation of the Nazi death camps, in New York on 24 January:

SG/SM/9687-ENV/DEV/816
24/01/2005
Press Release
SG/SM/9687
ENV/DEV/816

IN MESSAGE TO ‘BIODIVERSITY 2005’, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR RATIFICATION


OF BIODIVERSITY CONVENTION, BIOSAFETY PROTOCOL


Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to “Biodiversity 2005” in Paris today, 24 January, delivered by Koichiro Matsuura, Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO):

SG/SM/9686-GA/10331
24/01/2005
Press Release
SG/SM/9686
GA/10331

‘SUCH AN EVIL MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN AGAIN’, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS


GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION COMMEMORATING LIBERATION OF NAZI DEATH CAMPS


Following is today’s statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the special session of the General Asse3mbly, commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps:

SG/SM/9685
20/01/2005
Press Release
SG/SM/9685

Secretary-General stresses importance of international migration, academic freedom

 

in remarks to colloquium of university presidents


Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the plenary session of the Global Colloquium of University Presidents in New York on 19 January:


Once again, let me thank you all for being here.