SECRETARY-GENERAL’S MESSAGE TO UN GROUP ON SECURITY IN CENTRAL AFRICA;

ENCOURAGING PROGRESS NOTED, BUT PEACE PROCESSES ‘STILL FRAGILE’

SECRETARY-GENERAL LAUDS ADOPTION BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OF UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION

New Instrument Described as New Framework for Action against ‘Insidious Plague’

This is the text of an address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan today on the adoption by the General Assembly of the United Nations Convention against Corruption:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES DEVELOPMENTS IN KOREAN TALKS PROCESS

Following is a statement issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

CURRENT NET FLOW OF RESOURCES FROM DEVELOPING WORLD TO OTHER COUNTRIES

MUST BE REVERSED, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS HIGH-LEVEL DIALOGUE

Following are the remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the High-Level Dialogue of the General Assembly on Financing for Development, 30 October:

SECRETARY-GENERAL MEETS WITH BRAZILIAN PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION

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

The Secretary-General met yesterday with a delegation of Brazilian parliamentarians, headed by Mr. Joao Paulo Cunha, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGES DISCUSSED AS SECRETARY-GENERAL HOSTS LUNCHEON

FOR HEADS OF UNITED NATIONS PRINCIPAL ORGANS

Following is a statement issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the meeting of the heads of the Principal Organs of the United Nations held on 29 October:

Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS JOSE LUIS MACHINEA OF ARGENTINA EXECUTIVE SECRETARY

OF ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA, CARIBBEAN

The Secretary-General today announced the appointment of José Luis Machinea of Argentina as Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). 

SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS PRINCE SADRUDDIN AGA KHAN AS TRUE STATESMAN,

IN REMARKS TO MEMORIAL CEREMONY FOR FORMER REFUGEE CHIEF

Following are the remarks delivered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the memorial ceremony for Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan in New York on 28 October:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES SPIRIT OF OPENNESS, FORGIVENESS IN CENTRAL

AFRICAN REPUBLIC NATIONAL RECONCILIATION DIALOGUE

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the closing ceremony of the dialogue of national reconciliation in the Central African Republic, as delivered in Bangui on 27 October by General Lamine Cissé, Representative of the Secretary-General in the Central African Republic:

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S STATEMENT TO ASSEMBLY’S FIFTH COMMITTEE,

PRESENTING UNITED NATIONS BUDGET FOR 2004-2005

This is the text of a statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan today to the General Assembly’s Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) on the 2004-2005 budget of the United Nations: