SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES NEW KENYAN PRESIDENT,

COMMENDS WELL ORGANIZED, CREDIBLE ELECTORAL PROCESS

The following statement, issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan, was also issued earlier in Nairobi:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

TO FULLY COOPERATE WITH ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY

The following statement was issued Friday, 27 December, by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General expresses his concern over the increasing tensions in the Korean Peninsula. 

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXTENDS CONDOLENCES TO RUSSIAN FEDERATION

FOLLOWING EXPLOSION IN GROZNY

The following statement was issued Friday, 27 December, by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL DISTURBED THAT FIGHTING CONTINUES IN DEMOCRATIC

REPUBLIC OF CONGO DESPITE 16 DECEMBER CEASEFIRE ACCORD

Those Violating Humanitarian Law

Will Be Held Accountable for Their Actions, He Warns

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

Secretary-General Kofi Annan left New York early on Friday morning, 20 December, for Washington, D.C., where he was to participate in a meeting at the State Department of the Middle East diplomatic “Quartet”.

SECRETARY-GENERAL NOTES IRAQ’S HAND-OVER OF KUWAITI PROPERTY

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES SIGNING OF KABUL DECLARATION BY AFGHANISTAN

AND SIX NEIGHBOURS, HOPES IT WILL BOOST PEACE PROCESS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS KABUL DECLARATION BASIS TO PROMOTE REGIONAL

COOPERATION, IN MESSAGE TO CONFERENCE ON GOOD NEIGHBOURLY RELATIONS

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Conference on Good Neighbourly Relations delivered by Lakhdar Brahimi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, in Kabul on 22 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS NEW DEPUTY SPECIAL

REPRESENTATIVE FOR ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA

LEARNING INSTITUTIONS ARE IMPORTANT ALLIES OF UNITED NATIONS,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT NAMING OF DIPLOMACY SCHOOL

Following is the text of remarks as delivered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the official naming of the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations on 17 December: