SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ‘CRITICALLY IMPORTANT’

ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN AGREEMENT, COMMENDS US ROLE

The following statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General was issued on 27 June:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES CEASEFIRE ANNOUNCEMENT BY PALESTINIAN GROUPS

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

INFORMATION, SERVICES CRUCIAL TO FIGHT AGAINST AIDS, BROADER QUEST FOR GOOD

HEALTH, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN POPULATION DAY MESSAGE

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan for World Population Day, 11 July:

COOPERATIVES PROVIDE VITAL HEALTH, HOUSING, BANKING SERVICES,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the United Nations International Day of Cooperatives, 5 July 2003:

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY CONCERNED AT RENEWED FIGHTING IN LIBERIA,

CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL GRAVELY CONCERNED AT REPORT CONCERNING

DETENTION OF DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI IN MYANMAR

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS WORLD AT CROSSROADS BETWEEN HORRORS,

HOPE OF 20TH CENTURY, IN ADDRESS TO WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the closing plenary of the World Economic Forum, entitled “Visions for a Shared Future”, delivered on the shores of the Dead Sea, Jordan, 23 June:

At this place and this time we must feel ourselves at a crossroads of history.

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY DISTURBED’ BY NEWS OF ABDUCTION OF TWO UN MILITARY

OBSERVERS IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

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

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MUST BE HARNESSED TO GLOBAL MISSION OF PEACE, DEVELOPMENT,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO NEW YORK CONFERENCE

Following is Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan’s message to “The Net World Order:  Bridging the Global Digital Divide” Conference, hosted by the Business Council for the United Nations, in New York, 18 June:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO ST. PETERSBURG FORUM, SAYS COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES STARTING TO HARVEST ‘FRUITS’ OF ECONOMIC REFORM