SECRETARY-GENERAL CITES ‘CATALYTIC ROLE’ OF ESCAP IN MAKING GLOBALIZATION

POSITIVE FORCE, IN MESSAGE TO BANGKOK CONFERENCE

   Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the fifty-seventh session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), delivered on his behalf of the Executive Secretary of ESCAP, Kim Hak-Su, in Bangkok on 19 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DELIGHTED’ BY PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES’ WITHDRAWAL

OF LEGAL ACTION AGAINST SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO KIEV CONFERENCE ON CHERNOBYL DISASTER,

SAYS SOLIDARITY, TRANSPARENCY NEEDED TO COPE WITH INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the conference “Fifteen Years After the Chernobyl Accident, Lessons Learnt”, delivered on his behalf by the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Kenzo Oshima, in Kiev on 18 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONCERNED BY SECURITY, HUMANITARIAN SITUATION

AT BORDERS BETWEEN GUINEA, LIBERIA, SIERRA LEONE

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON GOVERNMENTS TO SHOW UTMOST RESTRAINT IN MIDDLE EAST

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

UN LEADERS DESCRIBE FREE PRESS AS ESSENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT,

IN JOINT WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY MESSAGE

Following is the text of a joint message, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day (3 May 2001), from Secretary-General Kofi Annan; the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Koichiro Matsuura; and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson:

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS BENEFITS OF SPACE EXPLORATION

SHOULD NOT BE LIMITED TO PRIVILEGED FEW

Following is a text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan, on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight and the twentieth anniversary of the launch of the first United States space shuttle (12 April 2001):

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF SHARM EL SHEIKH UNDERSTANDINGS

AND END TO MIDDLE EAST VIOLENCE

Following is the text of a statement issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the escalation of Israeli-Palestinian violence:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO HAVANA INTER-PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE,

SAYS ‘PARLIAMENTARY VISION’ COMPLEMENTS UNITED NATIONS’ OWN

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the 105^th Inter-Parliamentary Conference, delivered on his behalf by Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Kieran Prendergast, in Havana on 1 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL ANNOUNCES STEPS BY LEADING DRUG COMPANIES TO IMPROVE

AIDS TREATMENT ACCESS TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Following is the text of a statement today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Amsterdam, after meeting the leaders of six leading research-based pharmaceutical companies: