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:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES SPEEDY SIGNATURE, RATIFICATION OF STOCKHOLM

CONVENTION ON PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the opening for signature of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (Stockholm, 22-23 May), delivered by Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):

SECRETARY-GENERAL GIVES COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS AT FLETCHER SCHOOL OF LAW AND

DIPLOMACY, TUFTS UNIVERSITY:  'CONTAINING CLIMATE CHANGE: A GLOBAL CHALLENGE'

Following is the text of the commencement address delivered yesterday by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts:

It gives me great pleasure to join you for this very special day.

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY DISTURBED BY DISPROPORTIONATE ISRAELI RESPONSE

TO APPALLING TERRORIST ATTACK

Following is the text of a statement made today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the escalation of violence in the Middle East:

I am deeply disturbed by the disproportionate Israeli response to today's appalling terrorist attack in Netanya.

SECRETARY-GENERAL'S MESSAGE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DAY

FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, 22 MAY 2001

POVERTY BIGGEST ENEMY OF HEALTH IN DEVELOPING WORLD,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY

Following is the statement made today by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, to the fifty-fourth World Health Assembly held in Geneva:

It is a pleasure and an honour for me, as Secretary-General of the United Nations, to appear before this Assembly.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES CONCLUSION OF PROVISIONAL

SELF-GOVERNMENT AGREEMENT IN KOSOVO

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

The Secretary-General welcomes the conclusion of the Constitutional Framework for Provisional Self-Government in Kosovo and commends the consultative and inclusive manner in which this important document was elaborated.

SECRETARY-GENERAL STATES THAT FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF MITCHELL REPORT

RECOMMENDATIONS COULD HELP RESTART MIDDLE EAST PEACE NEGOTIATIONS

Following is the text of a statement issued yesterday, by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan, on the report of the Sharm el-Sheik Fact-Finding Committee:

WITHOUT CONSERVATION, ECONOMIC GROWTH CANNOT BE SUSTAINED,

SECRETARY-GENERAL STATES

Following is the text of remarks made in Brussels yesterday by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, at the King Baudouin International Development Prize Ceremony:

IN BRUSSELS, SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

TO CAMPAIGN FOR GENUINELY OPEN MARKETS

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Non-Governmental Forum at the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, delivered in Brussels this morning:

Thank you for that very warm welcome.

As you know I have left the Conference to come and talk to you.