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SG/SM/8921-DEV/2440
06/10/2003
Press Release
SG/SM/8921
DEV/2440


UNITED NATIONS, MORE THAN EVER, NEEDS STRONG, COHERENT DEVELOPMENT VOICE


SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO MEETING OF RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVES


Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the global resident representatives meeting in Tarrytown, New York, on 6 October:


It is hard to believe that it has been almost four years since the last global meeting of resident representatives.

SG/SM/8920
06/10/2003
Press Release
SG/SM/8920


‘WE MUST CONFRONT DEATH BY REAFFIRMING THE VALUE OF LIFE’,


SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE TO PRAYER SERVICE


Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Orthodox Christian prayer service for the United Nations community today, delivered by Joseph Stephanides, Director, Security Council Affairs Division, Department of Political Affairs:

SG/SM/8916
03/10/2003
Press Release
SG/SM/8916


SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION ON INAUGURATION


OF NEW HEADQUARTERS -- ‘HOUSE OF PARLIAMENTS’


Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message for the inauguration of the new headquarters of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, delivered by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General, United Nations Office in Geneva, 3 October: