SG/SM/8533

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE FOR FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF OTTAWA CONVENTION,

LOOKS TO TOTAL ELIMINATION OF LANDMINES, CONTINUED CARE FOR VICTIMS

This is the text of a message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the ceremony in Ottawa marking the fifth anniversary of the opening for signature of the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines (delivered on his behalf by Martin Barber, Chief, United Nations Mine Action Service):

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS MOMBASA TERRORIST ATTACKS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY, STRESSES NEED

TO FIGHT `EXCLUSION’ OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

This is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to mark the International Day of Disabled Persons, 3 December:

DAY OF PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY `A DAY OF MOURNING

AND A DAY OF GRIEF’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, delivered on his behalf by S. Iqbal Riza, Under-Secretary-General and Chef de Cabinet, New York, 29 November:

DAY OF PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY `A DAY OF MOURNING

AND A DAY OF GRIEF’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, delivered on his behalf by S. Iqbal Riza, Under-Secretary-General and Chef de Cabinet, New York, 29 November:

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER DAY

     This is the text of a message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in observance of International Volunteer Day -- 5 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CITES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY'S COMMITMENT TO ASSISTING

BURUNDI ACHIEVE PEACE, DEVELOPMENT, IN MESSAGE TO GENEVA CONFERENCE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan's message to the Burundi Round Table Conference, delivered on his behalf by his Deputy Special Representative for Burundi, Nureldin Satti, in Geneva on 27 November:

MARKING HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR VISION

TO BRING ABOUT NEW EQUILIBRIUM IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Globalization, Terrorism, Universality of Human Rights

Part of Shift in Interaction between States, Peoples, He Says

Following is the text of the message issued by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of Human Rights Day, 10 December:

MIXED COMMISSION ON ICJ RULING OF 10 OCTOBER TO BRING TOGETHER

REPRESENTATIVES OF CAMEROON, NIGERIA ON 1 DECEMBER IN YAOUNDÉ

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