CONSENSUS TRADITION CAN CONTRIBUTE TO CONFLICT RESOLUTION,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY MESSAGE

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the International Day of the World's Indigenous People, today, 9 August:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES PERSEVERANCE IN RESOLVING BORDER DISPUTE

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

The Secretary-General has been following with interest the Belize-Guatemala Facilitation Process designed to assist the Governments of Belize and Guatemala achieve a peaceful resolution of the longstanding territorial controversy between the two countries.

CONDEMNING COLOMBIA INAUGURATION KILLINGS, SECRETARY-GENERAL

APPEALS TO ALL ARMED ELEMENTS TO RESPECT CIVILIANS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL ADDRESSES SECURITY COUNCIL FOLLOWING SIGNING

OF PEACE AGREEMENT BY DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, RWANDA

Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council on 8 August concerning the signing of the Pretoria Agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda:

I shall be brief this morning.

CONCERNED BY UPSURGE OF VIOLENCE IN NIGER, SECRETARY-GENERAL

CALLS FOR UNCONDITIONAL RESPECT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER

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

The Secretary-General is very concerned by the upsurge of violence in the Niger, resulting from a spate of mutinies by segments of the armed forces in different parts of the country in recent days.

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS CATHERINE BERTINI AS PERSONAL HUMANITARIAN ENVOY

Following is the statement issued by Secretary-General Kofi Annan today on his appointment of Catherine Bertini as his Personal Humanitarian Envoy:

SECRETARY-GENERAL'S SPECIAL ENVOY LEAVES MYANMAR AFTER FIVE-DAY MISSION

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL SENDS SPECIAL ENVOY TO GAMBIA, GUINEA-BISSAU BACK TO REGION

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

SECERTARY-GENERAL'S STATEMENT ON ATTACKS IN ISRAEL

Following is a statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan following the weekend attacks in Israel:

SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES UN COMMITMENT TO ASPIRATIONS

OF LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Ministerial Meeting of the Least Developed Countries, to be delivered by Anwarul K. Chowdhury, High Representative of the Secretary-General for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, in Cotonou, Benin, 5 August: