SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS STEPS WILL BE TAKEN TO ENSURE EARLY IMPLEMENTATION

OF RECOMMENDATIONS OF INDEPENDENT PANEL ON STAFF SECURITY IN IRAQ

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the report of the independent panel on the safety and security of United Nations personnel in Iraq:

The Secretary-General departed for Pennsylvania in the morning of Tuesday, 21 October.

UNITED STATES, UNITED NATIONS NEED EACH OTHER IN RELATIONSHIP OF 'PRODUCTIVE

INTERDEPENDENCE', SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN HEINZ FOUNDATION LECTURE

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Heinz Foundation Distinguished Lecture at the University of Pittsburgh, 21 October 2003:

Thank you, Mr. Johnson [Bill Johnson, Chairman of Heinz], for those very kind words.

UNITED STATES, UNITED NATIONS NEED EACH OTHER IN RELATIONSHIP OF ‘PRODUCTIVE

INTERDEPENDENCE’, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN HEINZ FOUNDATION LECTURE

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Heinz Foundation Distinguished Lecture at the University of Pittsburgh, 21 October 2003:

Thank you, Mr. Johnson [Bill Johnson, Chairman of Heinz], for those very kind words.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES DECLARATION ON IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME

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

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MUST PUT PRESSURE ON PARTIES TO IMPLEMENT ROAD MAP

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