Secretary-General


SG/SM/6445
26 January 1998


Press Release
SG/SM/6445


SECRETARY-GENERAL DEPLORES ATTEMPTS TO DIVIDE HUMAN BEINGS ON RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC GROUNDS

19980126 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General has learned with outrage of the news of a bomb attack on a major Buddhist shrine in Kandy, Sri Lanka, on 25 January, and the resulting loss of life and destruction.

SG/SM/6444
23 January 1998


Press Release
SG/SM/6444


SECRETARY-GENERAL TO DEPART ON ONE-WEEK EUROPEAN TRIP 26 JANUARY

19980123 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:

On Monday, 26 January, the Secretary-General will be departing on a trip to Paris, London and Davos, Switzerland.

SG/A/662
21 January 1998


Press Release
SG/A/662
BIO/3130*


SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS NADIA YOUNES AS UNITED NATIONS PROTOCOL CHIEF

19980121 Biographical Note Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed Nadia Younes as United Nations Chief of Protocol. Ms. Younes, who assumed her new post on 19 January, succeeds Livio Muzi Falconi.

Prior to her appointment, Ms. Younes was the Director of the Media Division, Department of Public Information (DPI).

SG/SM/6443
20 January 1998


Press Release
SG/SM/6443
DCF/318


SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES UNITED NATIONS ESSENTIAL ROLE AND PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY IN DISARMAMENT FIELD

19980120

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the opening today of the 1998 session of the Conference on Disarmament, which was delivered on his behalf by Vladimir Petrovsky, his Personal Representative and Secretary-General of the Conference: