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UN NEEDS VITAL CONTRIBUTION OF REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN STABILIZING

WAR-TORN NATIONS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks to the Security Council meeting on cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations in the processes of stabilization, in New York, 20 July:

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Vienna, Austria on Wednesday, 14 July.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday, 9 July, where he would open the Fifteenth International AIDS Conference the following day.

IN BANGKOK, SECRETARY-GENERAL DISCUSSES MYANMAR SITUATION

WITH THAI PRIME MINISTER, FOREIGN MINISTER

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

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JUAN GABRIEL VALDES APPOINTED SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE

AND HEAD OF UN MISSION IN HAITI

The Secretary-General has decided to appoint Juan Gabriel Valdes of Chile as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).  Ambassador Valdes will take up his position in August 2004.

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES PEACEFUL ATTITUDE DURING BOLIVIA’S UPCOMING REFERENDUM

Following is the text of a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General is following with great interest the upcoming referendum on 18 July 2004 concerning the abrogation of the national hydrocarbons law, as well as the key principles for the management of the gas sector in the future.

Secretary-General, in bangkok remarks, praises thailand’s

‘remarkable success’ in reaching anti-poverty goals

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks on receiving the Thailand Millennium Development Goals Report from the Prime Minister of Thailand in Bangkok, 13 July:

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES FULL SUPPORT FOR TERJE ROED-LARSEN,

SPECIAL COORDINATOR FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE

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

JUAN E. MÉNDEZ OF ARGENTINA APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVISER ON PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE

The Secretary-General has decided to appoint Juan Méndez of Argentina as his Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide.

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Ashraf Jehangir Qazi of Pakistan appointed Special Representative for Iraq

The Secretary-General has decided to appoint Ashraf Jehangir Qazi of Pakistan as his Special Representative for Iraq.

Mr.Qazi’s appointment as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General comes after a long and distinguished career with the Pakistani diplomatic service.