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:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS DEADLY GAZA ATTACK ON DIPLOMATS

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

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT ‘INSTRUMENT OF JUSTICE, NOT EXPEDIENCY’,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS TO BEIJING LAW SYMPOSIUM

Following is the message of Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan to the Symposium on the Comparative Study of International Criminal Law and the Rome Statute in Beijing, 15 October:

SECRETARY-GENERAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO CONTRIBUTION OF POLISH PEACEKEEPERS,

IN MESSAGE TO 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION IN WARSAW

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the thirtieth anniversary of Poland’s first contribution to United Nations peacekeeping, as delivered today in Warsaw by Colin Glennie, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Poland:

CHINA ‘SPLENDID EXAMPLE OF PROGRESS’ IN ELIMINATING IODINE DEFICIENCY,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE TO BEIJING MEETING

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the high-level meeting on the elimination of iodine deficiency, as delivered today in Beijing by Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):

SECRETARY-GENERAL REGRETS BEING UNABLE TO ATTEND OIC SUMMIT IN MALAYSIA

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS INAUGURATION OF NATIONAL TRANSITIONAL

GOVERNMENT AS ‘TURNING POINT’ FOR LIBERIA

Following is the message of Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan on the inauguration of the National Transitional Government of Liberia, as delivered today in Monrovia by Jacques Paul Klein, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Liberia: