CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION, EFFECTIVELY IMPLEMENTED, CAN BE POWERFUL INSTRUMENT

AGAINST TERRORISM, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS CONFERENCE OF STATES PARTIES

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the eighth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention at The Hague today:

WORLD THAT DOES NOT OFFER FAIR CHANCE TO ALL ‘WILL BE NEITHER PROSPEROUS,

NOR PEACEFUL’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO 29^TH PIO MANZU CONFERENCE

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the twenty-ninth Pio Manzù international conference in Rimini, Italy, delivered on 19 October by Giandomenico Picco, Special Adviser and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General for the United Nations Dialogue among Civilizations:

SECRETARY-GENERAL HEARTENED BY CONSTITUTIONAL SOLUTION TO BOLIVIA CRISIS

The following statement was issued on 18 October by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES INCREASED SUPPORT FOR FINAL STAGE

OF

POLIO ERADICATION, IN MESSAGE TO KUALA LUMPUR SUMMIT

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES PEOPLE OF CHINA ON SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION

OF FIRST MANNED SPACE MISSION

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the conclusion of China’s first manned space flight:

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED AT DEATH OF MOKTAR OULD DADDAH,

FIRST PRESIDENT OF MAURITANIA

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the death of Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES WORLD FOOD PRIZE WINNER CATHERINE BERTINI,

IN VIDEO MESSAGE TO SYMPOSIUM IN DES MOINES, IOWA

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s video message to the World Food Prize Symposium, held in Des Moines, Iowa, 16 October:

I add my voice to yours, on this World Food Day, in congratulating Catherine Bertini on winning this year’s World Food Prize.  She fully deserves it. 

SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS ADOPTION OF IRAQ RESOLUTION, SAYS OUTCOME DEMONSTRATES

WILLINGNESS OF SECURITY COUNCIL TO PLACE IRAQI INTERESTS ABOVE ALL ELSE

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council following adoption of resolution 1511 on Iraq:

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MUST UNITE TO ADDRESS ALL EXTREMISM,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS TO ISLAMIC SUMMIT IN KUALA LUMPUR

Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the tenth Summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, delivered today in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, by Lakhdar Brahimi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS SPACE FLIGHT A STEP FORWARD FOR HUMANKIND

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