Statements and Messages

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN OVER HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN COLOMBIA

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

THREATS FACED BY UN STAFF, NGOS, MEDIA REMAIN PROFOUND, SECRETARY-GENERAL

SAYS IN MESSAGE FOR DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH MISSING STAFF

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members, 25 March 2004:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, DISTURBED BY ESCALATION OF FIGHTING IN NEPAL,

APPEALS FOR RESUMPTION OF PEACE PROCESS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL DISPATCHES ENVOY TO EQUATORIAL GUINEA

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY CONDEMNS ISRAEL’S ASSASSINATION OF HAMAS LEADER,

WHICH RESULTED IN DEATHS OF EIGHT OTHERS

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

ONLY RATIONAL, INFORMED POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RESPONSE CAN REDUCE

DISASTER VULNERABILITY, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN WATER DAY MESSAGE

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on World Water Day 2004, entitled “Water and Disasters:  Be informed and be prepared”:

SECRETARY-GENERAL THANKS WINNERS OF ‘UN 21’ AWARDS

FOR HELPING RENEW, STRENGTHEN ORGANIZATION

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks on the occasion of the UN 21 Awards in New York, 19 March:

Dear colleagues, let me tell you how happy I am to join you at this UN 21 award ceremony and to be able to meet the winners.

SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES CALL FOR RATIFICATION OF KYOTO PROTOCOL ON TENTH

ANNIVERSARY OF CLIMATE CHANGE CONVENTION’S ENTRY INTO FORCE

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 21 March 2004:

KOSOVO’S LEADERS MUST WORK WITH INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND EACH OTHER TO RESTORE

CALM, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council on the situation in Kosovo today:

AS PAN AFRICAN PARLIAMENT HOLDS INAUGURAL MEETING, SECRETARY-GENERAL

OFFERS CONGRATULATIONS, UN ASSISTANCE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the inaugural meeting of the Pan African Parliament of the African Union, delivered by Tuliameni Kalomoh, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, in Addis Ababa, 18 March: