SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR NATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND LOCAL INVOLVEMENT IN FIGHT

AGAINST HIV/AIDS, AT CONFERENCE OF COUNCIL ON FOUNDATIONS

Following is the text, as delivered, of the address made by Secretary-General Kofi Annan today to the Annual Conference of the Council on Foundations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR MORE SUSTAINABLE BASIS FOR DEVELOPMENT EXIST,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS BUCHAREST SUMMIT

Following is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Summit on Environment and Sustainable Development in the Danube-Carpathian Region, delivered today in Bucharest, Romania, on his behalf by Danuta Hübner, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE):

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPEALS TO COMOROS PARTIES TO ADHERE

TO FRAMEWORK RECONCILIATION AGREEMENT

Following is the text of a statement issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan, on the situation in the Comoros:

SECRETARY-GENERAL GREATLY DISTRESSED AT MURDERS OF SIX HUMANITARIAN

WORKERS IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Following is the text of a statement issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR GREATER ASSISTANCE FOR CHERNOBYL VICTIMS

Following is the text of a statement made today -– the fifteenth anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident –- by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES SADNESS AT DEATH OF REVEREND LEON SULLIVAN

Following is the text of a statement from Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN TENTH ANNIVERSARY MESSAGE, PRAISES ACCOMPLISHMENTS

OF EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

   Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, delivered on his behalf by Danuta Hubner, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in London on 22 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES ‘PROFOUND HUMANITY AND INTEGRITY’

OF JULIUS K. NYERERE AT NEW YORK MEMORIAL MASS

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the memorial mass in honour of the late Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere in New York on 20 April:

It is a great honour for me to join you all for this memorial mass in honour of the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere. 

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES HEAD OF WHO ON GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AWARD

Following is the text of remarks made by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the United Nations Association-United States of America (UNA-USA) Global Leadership Award Dinner in New York yesterday, honouring Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO):

It is an honour for me to join in this tribute to Dr. Brundtland.