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.

The Secretary-General left Durban, South Africa, on Saturday, 1 September.  On his way to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), his plane stopped at Lusaka, Zambia, to refuel.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Durban from Austria on Wednesday morning, 28 August.

                                                      SG/SM/7940