SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS NEW MILITARY ADVISER

IN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT

The Secretary-General has appointed Major General Patrick Cammaert as Military Adviser in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations.  The appointment will become effective in November.

Major General Cammaert, a national of the Netherlands, will succeed Major General Tim Ford from Australia.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Mongolia in the morning of Wednesday, 16 October.

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEPLORES ISRAELI ATTACK ON REFUGEE CAMP IN GAZA STRIP;

CALLS ON ISRAEL TO HALT MILITARY ACTION IN HEAVILY POPULATED AREAS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS WORK FOR PEACE INEXTRICABLY LINKED

WITH WORK FOR DEVELOPMENT

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on receiving the Order of Dostyk from Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan, in Astana today:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES DECISION BY INDIA, PAKISTAN

ON PARTIAL TROOP WITHDRAWAL FROM BORDER AREAS

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

Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who left New York on Saturday, arrived on Sunday evening in Hangzhou, an attractive and prosperous lakeside city in a silk-producing region south of Shanghai that is said to have captured nearly a third of the world market in silk ties.

FIGHTING POVERTY, PROTECTING ENVIRONMENT ARE MUTUALLY

REINFORCING GOALS, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Second Assembly of the Global Environment Facility, delivered by Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme in Beijing today:

IN ADDRESS TO MONGOLIAN PARLIAMENT, SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES

CONTRIBUTIONS OF NATIONS GREAT OR SMALL

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan's address to the State Great Hural (Parliament) of Mongolia:  "Small States in an era of globalization", Ulaanbaatar, 16 October:

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SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES OPENING OF SOMALI

NATIONAL RECONCILIATION CONFERENCE IN KENYA

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