SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS WORLD IS "FALLING SHORT" IN EFFORTS

TO MEET GOALS OF MILLENIUM DECLARATION

First Progress Report on Implementation of UN Plan

Shows Dramatic "Speed Up" Needed to Meet Targets Set for 2015

These are the opening remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan today at a Headquarters press conference on the first progress report on the implementation of the Millennium Declaration:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ISRAELI DECISION TO LIFT SIEGE OF RAMALLAH COMPOUND

This statement has been issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES GRIEF AT SENEGAL FERRY DISASTER

This statement was issued on 28 September by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General is deeply saddened by the news that hundreds of people are feared drowned after a Senegalese passenger ferry capsized off the coast of the Gambia in a violent storm.  He expresses his heartfelt condolences to the Government, families and friends of the victims.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WARNS WORLD FALLING SHORT OF MILLENNIUM SUMMIT COMMITMENTS;

OUTLINES STEPS TO ACCELERATE PROGRESS

SECRETARY-GENERAL AFFIRMS UN SUPPORT FOR SUBREGIONAL EFFORTS

TO RESOLVE CÔTE D'IVOIRE CRISIS

Following is a statement on the situation in Côte d'Ivoire by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General continues to follow with deep concern the developments in Côte d’Ivoire.

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SECRETARY-GENERAL APPLAUDS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

TECHNOLOGIES TASK FORCE'S EMPHASIS ON AFRICA

Following are the remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the opening of the third meeting of the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force:

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES COURAGE, DETERMINATION OF TIMOR-LESTE

AT HEADQUARTERS FLAG-RAISING CEREMONY

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the flag-raising ceremony for Timor-Leste in New York on 27 September:

Bom Dia,

This is an historic occasion.

IN WAKE OF GAZA ATTACK, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON ISRAEL TO HALT ALL SUCH ACTIONS

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

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