Statements and Messages

Press Release
SG/SM/7490
AFR/255

SECRETARY-GENERAL GRATIFIED BY SUCCESS OF OPERATION TO BRING UNAMSIL PEACEKEEPERS TO SAFETY

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

Press Release
SG/SM/7488

SECRETARY-GENERAL'S STATEMENT ON ELECTIONS IN HAITI

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

Press Release
SG/SM/7489

SREBRENICA TRAGEDY WILL FOREVER HAUNT UNITED NATIONS HISTORY, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL ON FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF CITY'S FALL

Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the fifth anniversary of the fall of Srebrenica, 11 July:

Press Release
SG/SM/7487
AFG/116

SECRETARY-GENERAL DISMAYED TO LEARN OF LATEST RESURGENCE OF FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN

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

Press Release
SG/SM/7486
POP/776

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ESSENTIAL PART OF UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's message "Saving Women's Lives", on the occasion of World Population Day, which will be observed tomorrow:

Press Release
SG/SM/7485/Rev.1*
AFR/253/Rev.1*

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS UNITED NATIONS STANDS 'READY TO HELP AFRICA, WHEREVER AND HOWEVER IT CAN'

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's address to the Annual Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), in Lomé on 10 July:

Press Release
SG/SM/7485
AFR/253

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS UNITED NATIONS STANDS 'READY TO HELP AFRICA, WHEREVER AND HOWEVER IT CAN'

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's address to the Annual Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), in Lomé on 10 July:

Let me add my voice to all those that have thanked the people and Government of Togo for their generous hospitality.

Press Release
SG/SM/7484
AFR/252

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXTREMELY CONCERNED ABOUT UNACCEPTABLE ENCIRCLEMENT OF 233 UN PEACEKEEPERS IN SIERRA LEONE

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

Press Release
SG/SM/7483
AFR/251

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES REPORT BY OAU-APPOINTED PANEL TO INVESTIGATE 1994 GENOCIDE IN RWANDA

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

Press Release
SG/SM/7482
AFR/250

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES THAT FUTURE OF AFRICA LIES IN ITS PEOPLE

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks today in Accra at the opening of an exhibition on United Nations Peacekeeping and presentation of the booklet: “Ghana: Four Decades of UN and Regional Peackeeping”: