SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY SADDENED BY SPACE SHUTTLE TRAGEDY;

SAYS LOSS OF COLUMBIA IS LOSS TO ALL HUMANKIND

      The following statement was issued on 1 February by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES NEPAL CEASEFIRE

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES RUSSIAN FEDERATION, UKRAINE ON BOUNDARY AGREEMENT

The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 29 January:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES PRESIDENT BUSH ON PLEDGE OF STRONGER

UNITED STATES LEADERSHIP IN FIGHT AGAINST AIDS

Following is a statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

KOFI ANNAN CALLS FOR STRENGTHENING OF COOPERATION BETWEEN UNITED NATIONS

AND CENTRAL AFRICA IN PEACEKEEPING AND SECURITY

Following is the text of the message from the Secretary-General to the Summit of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC), held in Libreville on 21 and 22 January 2003, which was read out by General Lamine Cissé, Representative of the Secretary-General in the Central African Republic:

The Secretary-General travelled to Paris in the evening of Thursday, 23 January, arriving early the following morning.

IVOIRIAN LEADERS OF ALL PARTIES MUST ENSURE RESPECT FOR RULE OF LAW,

HUMAN RIGHTS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the opening of the Conference of Heads of State on Côte d’Ivoire in Paris on 25 January:

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SECRETARY-GENERALURGES THOROUGH REFORM OF IVORIAN DEFENCE, SECURITY FORCES

Following is the text of remarks, as delivered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, to the meeting on the follow-up mechanisms for the peace agreement on Côte d’Ivoire in Paris, on 25 January:

Nous sommes réunis ici aujourd’hui pour entériner l’accord mettant fin au conflit qui ravage la Côte d’Ivoire depuis plusieurs mois. 

GOAL MUST BE TO MAKE GLOBALIZATION AN EQUITABLE, INCLUSIVE PROCESS,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the World Social Forum, delivered today by Mr. Nitin Desai, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, in Porto Alegre, Brazil:

It gives me great pleasure to send my greetings to this forum.