Biographical Note                                           SG/2031/Rev.5*

                Following is the text of a statement made today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

We are all traumatized by this terrible tragedy.  We do not know yet how many people have been killed or injured, but inevitably the number will be high.  Our first thoughts and prayers must be for them and for their families.  I wish to express my profound condolences to them, and to the people and Government of the United States.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Mrs. Nane Annan arrived in Sweden from Africa in the morning of Wednesday, 5 September.

SECRETARY-GENERAL FOCUSES ON AIDS, POVERTY, PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

IN SPEECH TO NGOS

Following is the text of a statement made by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in New York this morning to the fifty-fourth Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organization (DPI/NGO) Conference:

MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY-GENERAL ON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE

11 September 2001

Following is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of International Day Of Peace (11 September):

The International Day of Peace is a day on which we try to imagine a world quite different from the one we know.

We try to picture those who wage war laying down their arms and talking out their differences.

Statement by Secretary-General on conclusion of World Conference Against Racism,

Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the conclusion of the World Conference Against Racism, Durban, 8 September:

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES REGRET THAT TURKISH CYPRIOT LEADER

CANNOT ATTEND NEW YORK TALKS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR PRESERVATION OF OZONE LAYER

Following is the text of a statement from Secretary-General Kofi Annan, on the occasion of the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer

(16 September 2001):

HAMMARSKJÖLD'S CORE IDEAS REMAIN VALID IN NEW INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT,

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPLAINS IN MEMORIAL LECTURE

Following is the text of the Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture entitled Dag Hammarskjöld and the 21st Century, delivered today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Uppsala, Sweden:

On Monday, 3 September, the Secretary-General travelled from Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to Kigali, Rwanda.