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SG/SM/8680-AFR/612
30/04/2003
Press Release
SG/SM/8680
AFR/612


SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES NEW PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF BURUNDI,

NOTES ONGOING VIOLENCE AND INSTABILITY DESPITE CEASEFIRE


Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the occasion of the swearing-in of the President and Vice-President of Burundi for the second phase of the transition, delivered by Berhanu Dinka, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Burundi, in Bujumbura on 30 April:

SG/SM/8679-SC/7745-AFR/611
30/04/2003
Press Release
SG/SM/8679
SC/7745
AFR/611


SECRETARY-GENERAL APPEALS TO SECURITY COUNCIL, WIDER INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

FOR FUNDS TO SECURE PEACE IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE


Following is the statement, as delivered, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council meeting devoted to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on 29 April:

SG/SM/8678-DC/2863
28/04/2003
Press Release
SG/SM/8678
DC/2863


DESPITE ACHIEVEMENTS IN CHEMICAL DISARMAMENT, NO ROOM FOR COMPLACENCY,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS STATES PARTIES TO CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION


      Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the First Review Conference of the States parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention, delivered by Enrique Roman-Morey, Director of the Disarmament Affairs Geneva Branch, at
The Hague today:

SG/SM/8677
28/04/2003
Press Release
SG/SM/8677


TRAGIC LEGACY OF CHERNOBYL WILL REMAIN FOR GENERATIONS TO COME SAYS

SECRETARY-GENERAL ON ANNIVERSARY OF NUCLEAR PLANT ACCIDENT


The following statement was issued 26 April by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the seventeenth anniversary of the Chernobyl accident:


Twenty-six April marks the seventeenth anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine.