Secretary-General

24 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6502
SAG/4

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY HAS GREAT DEMOCRATIZING POWER WAITING TO BE HARNESSED TO GLOBAL STRUGGLE FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT

19980324 Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's message, delivered yesterday by the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, Vladimir Petrovsky, at the World Telecommunication Development Conference, in Valletta, Malta:

23 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6501

SECRETARY-GENERAL ADVOCATES PATH OF PEACE, DIALOGUE, IN ADDRESS TO PALESTINIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL

19980323 Reaffirms UN Support for Palestinian Cause

Following is the text of an address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Palestinian National Council at Gaza on 23 March:

23 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6500

UNITED NATIONS FORCE ON ISRAEL, SYRIA BORDER HELPS KEEP PEACE, PREVENT INSTABILITY, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS TROOPS

19980323 Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on his visit to Al-Fawar Camp of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in Syria on 22 March:

23 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6499

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE, IN REMARKS TO YOUTH IN BEIRUT

19980323 Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's remarks to youth and students at Beirut on 21 March:

Thank you all for being here. I am delighted to see so many young faces here before me today. Wherever I go as Secretary-General, I find one of the most rewarding kind of encounters to be those with young people like yourselves.

23 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6498

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES MAJOR STEP TOWARDS NORMALIZATION OF SITUATION IN CAMBODIA

19980323

The following statement was issued today by the Secretary-General's spokesman on Cambodia:

21 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6495
OBV/39

VICTORY OVER APARTHEID NO EXCUSE FOR COMPLACENCY IN EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

19980321 ADVANCE RELEASE Message on International Day for Elimination of Discrimination Stresses Government's Role in Building Tolerant, Equal Societies

Following is the text of a message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 21 March:

20 March 1998

Press Release
SG/T/2120

SECRETARY-GENERAL'S ACTIVITIES IN AMMAN, JORDAN, 17-18 MARCH

19980320 (Received from the Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General.)

The Secretary-General began the first leg of his Middle East tour in Amman, where he arrived from Geneva in the evening of Tuesday, 17 March.

20 March 1998

Press Release
SG/T/2119

20 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6497

SECRETARY-GENERAL, INAUGURATING UN HOUSE IN BEIRUT, STRESSES ENDURING AND UNSEVERABLE LINK BETWEEN UNITED NATIONS AND MIDDLE EAST

19980320 Kofi Annan Says Unforeseen Difficulties in Peace Process Are Not Excuse for 'Abandoning Our Vision', Calls for Redoubled Efforts towards Peace

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's statement at the inauguration of the United Nations House, in Beirut today:

19 March 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6496
OBV/40

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR PREVENTION OF GROUNDWATER POLLUTION, IN MESSAGE FOR WORLD WATER DAY, 22 MARCH

19980319 Following is the text of a message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of World Water Day, 22 March: