PUBLIC SECTOR CORRUPTION WEAKENS DEMOCRACY, ENCOURAGES ORGANIZED CRIME,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO GLOBAL FORUM

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, delivered on his behalf by Jan van Dijk, Director, United Nations Centre for International Crime Prevention, to the Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity at The Hague on 28 May:

Secretary-General CALLS FOR RESTRAINT, STATESMANSHIP IN MIDDLE EAST,

IN MESSAGE TO EMERGENCY MEETING OF ISLAMIC CONFERENCE

On Thursday, 24 May, Secretary-General Kofi Annan went to Washington's Capitol Hill for a series of meetings with members of the United States Congress.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES SUDAN GOVERNMENT DECISION TO HALT

AIR ATTACKS IN NUBA MOUNTAINS, SOUTHERN SUDAN

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

‘LET US BE GOOD STEWARDS OF THE EARTH WE INHERITED’ SECRETARY-

GENERAL URGES IN SALUTE TO WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to celebrate World Environment Day, 5 June:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES OAU ON ITS THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY

Following is the text of the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annanto the meeting marking the thirty-eighth anniversary of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), delivered on the Secretary-General's behalf by Under-Secretary-General Ibrahim Gambari, Special Adviser on Africa:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES PROSPECT OF RENEWED INDIA-PAKISTAN DIALOGUE

AT HIGHEST LEVEL

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL SALUTES PARTICIPANTS AT HAVANA REGIONAL SEMINAR

ON DECOLONIZATION

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the opening of the Caribbean Regional Seminar on Decolonization and the observance of the Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories, Havana, 23-25 May:

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL ENVOY TO REVISIT MYANMAR, 1–4 JUNE

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

Razali Ismail, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Myanmar, will visit Yangon from 1 to 4 June to help facilitate the process of democratization and national reconciliation in Myanmar.  This will be his fourth mission to Myanmar.

SECRETARY-GENERAL DISMAYED AT REPORTS OF TALIBAN PROPOSAL

TO ORDER ‘IDENTITY LABELS’ FOR NON-MUSLIM AFGHANS

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