SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES BEIJING TALKS INVOLVING UNITED STATES,

DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, CHINA

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS CATASTROPHIC LOSSES TO IRAQ’S CULTURAL HERITAGE

‘A WOUND INFLICTED ON ALL HUMANKIND’

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONCERNED RECENT STATEMENTS DIRECTED AT SYRIA

NOT CONTRIBUTE TO WIDER DESTABILIZATION

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

EXPLORING ROOT CAUSES OF CONFLICT ONLY WAY TO BUILD ENDURING PEACE,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO BEIRUT MEETING

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the twenty-second session of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), delivered by Mervat Tallawy, Executive Secretary, ESCWA, in Beirut on 14 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS UN NATURAL HOME FOR NEEDED DIALOGUE AMONG TRADE,

DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS, IN STATEMENT TO HIGH-LEVEL ECOSOC MEETING

Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, delivered on his behalf by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette, to the special high-level meeting of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) with the Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organization in New York on 14 April:

FRAMEWORK FOR PEACE, SECURITY MUST HAVE CAPACITY TO RESPOND SWIFTLY, EFFECTIVELY,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the text of opening remarks, as delivered, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to today’s meeting of the Security Council on regional organizations and new challenges to international peace and security:

INDICTMENTS FOR ‘CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY’ FILED IN TIMOR-LESTE

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY CONCERNED’ BY ISRAEL’S AIR ATTACK IN GAZA,

RESULTING IN DEATHS OF SEVEN PALESTINIANS

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

‘TO EDUCATE GIRLS IS TO REDUCE POVERTY’ SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

IN MESSAGE TO GLOBAL EDUCATION CAMPAIGN EVENT

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message for “The World’s Biggest Lesson” held during the Global Action Week of the Global Campaign for Education, at Headquarters 9 April:

To educate girls is to reduce poverty. That is the lesson that unites us today.

DR. CARLO URBANI ‘A HERO -- IN THE BEST AND TRUEST SENSE OF WORD’

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO MEMORIAL SERVICE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the memorial service for Dr. Carlo Urbani, delivered on his behalf by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Coordinator, Jordan Ryan, in Hanoi, 8 April: