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SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS TANGIBLE RESULTS POSSIBLE AT CONFERENCE ON FINANCING

FOR DEVELOPMENT IF GROUP OF 77 CREATES REALISTIC PLATFORM FOR NEGOTIATIONS

Following is the text of remarks today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the ceremony marking the turnover of chairmanship of the Group of 77 from Iran to Venezuela:

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEPLORES HAMAS ATTACK INSIDE ISRAEL, DESTRUCTION

OF PALESTINIAN HOUSES IN GAZA BY ISRAELI DEFENCE FORCE

Calls on Parties Not to Be Deterred from Efforts to Resume Security Cooperation

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES PARTIES TO CONFLICT IN COLOMBIA ‘TO MAKE

EVERY POSSIBLE EFFORT’ TO RESOLVE CURRENT CRISIS

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

RECONCILIATION, REHABILITATION IN SOMALIA ARE KEY CONCERNS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Somalia's Leaders Must Rise above Differences and Put Interests of Peace First

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Summit Meeting of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), delivered by Mohamed Sahnoun, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General, in Khartoum,

10-11 January:

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SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED AT TRAGIC DEATHS

OF SIX ZAMBIAN PEACEKEEPERS IN SIERRA LEONE

SG/SM/8089/Rev.1*

3 January 2002

SECRETARY-GENERAL HIGHLIGHTS REGIONAL CHALLENGES, POTENTIAL FOR COOPERATION,

IN REMARKS AT INAUGURATION OF BARBADOS UNITED NATIONS HOUSE

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the inauguration of United Nations House in Bridgetown, Barbados, on 2 January:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES PAKISTANI LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTION

AS STEP TOWARDS EASING REGIONAL TENSIONS

The following was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General

Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WARMLY WELCOMES INTRODUCTION OF EURO

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

HANS HAEKKERUP, HEAD OF UN KOSOVO MISSION, TO DEPART AT END OF 2001;

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES REGRET, DEEP APPRECIATION FOR SERVICE

The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan, on the departure of Hans Haekkerup as head of UNMIK:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONCERNED ABOUT NEGATIVE IMPACT OF FIGHTING IN LIBERIA

Following is the text of a statement issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General has been following the recent upsurge in fighting between Liberian Government forces and armed elements in the north-western part of the country.