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SG/SM/8242

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO GLOBAL MINING INITIATIVE CONFERENCE, NOTES MOBILIZATION OF ‘UNPRECEDENTED COALITION FOR CHANGE’

15/05/2002
Press Release
SG/SM/8242


SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO GLOBAL MINING INITIATIVE CONFERENCE,


NOTES MOBILIZATION OF ‘UNPRECEDENTED COALITION FOR CHANGE’


Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the closing session of the Global Mining Initiative Conference, delivered on his behalf by George Kell, Executive Head of the Global Compact, in Toronto on 15 May:

SG/SM/8241-AFR/412

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES PEOPLE OF SIERRA LEONE ON ‘SPIRIT OF MUTUAL RESPECT AND RECONCILIATION’ IN YESTERDAY’S ELECTIONS

15/05/2002
Press Release
SG/SM/8241
AFR/412


SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES PEOPLE OF SIERRA LEONE ON ‘SPIRIT OF MUTUAL


RESPECT AND RECONCILIATION’ IN YESTERDAY’S ELECTIONS


Appeals for Continued Calm, Restraint

As Election Results are Collated and Announced


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

SG/SM/8239-ENV/DEV/637

BOTH RICH AND POOR HAVE CLEAR INTEREST IN PROTECTING ENVIRONMENT, PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

14/05/2002
Press Release
SG/SM/8239
ENV/DEV/637


BOTH RICH AND POOR HAVE CLEAR INTEREST IN PROTECTING ENVIRONMENT,


PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS


The following statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, entitled “Towards a Sustainable Future”, (The American Museum of Natural History’s Annual “Environmental Lecture”) was delivered by Nane Annan in New York today:

SG/SM/8237

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES AGREEMENT BY UNITED STATES, RUSSIAN FEDERATION TO REDUCE NUCLEAR WEAPONS

14/05/2002
Press Release
SG/SM/8237


SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES AGREEMENT BY UNITED STATES, RUSSIAN FEDERATION


TO REDUCE NUCLEAR WEAPONS


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


The Secretary-General welcomes the announcement that the United States of America and the Russian Federation have agreed to sign a treaty to reduce their deployed strategic nuclear weapons substantially by the year 2012.