Statements and Messages

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SG/SM/7481

UNITED NATIONS LEGAL COUNSEL COMPLETES FORMAL DISCUSSIONS WITH CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT ON ESTABLISHMENT OF TRIBUNAL TO TRY KHMER ROUGE LEADERS

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

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SG/SM/7480

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ANNOUNCEMENT OF CAMP DAVID SUMMIT BETWEEN ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER AND CHAIRMAN YASSER ARAFAT

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

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SG/SM/7479

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR PRACTICAL, ACHIEVABLE PROGRAMME TO MAKE GLOBALIZATION A POSITIVE FORCE FOR ALL WORLD’S PEOPLE

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s inaugural address to Urban 21: Global Conference on the Urban Future, which he delivered yesterday in Berlin:

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SG/SM/7478

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES UN ROLE IN FIGHTING CHILD LABOUR, INCREASING LITERACY, PROMOTING WOMEN’S EQUALITY AND COMBATING HIV/AIDS

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks yesterday at Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany:

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SG/SM/7477
SEA/1684

SECRETARY-GENERAL HOPES MORE AND MORE PARTIES WILL MAKE USE OF INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR LAW OF SEA

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement today at the official opening of the Headquarters Building of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany:

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SG/SM/7476

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPALLED BY AMBUSH OF JORDANIAN PEACEKEEPERS IN SIERRA LEONE

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

The Secretary-General is appalled to learn that United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) troops from the Jordanian contingent were ambushed today near Mile 91, in an attack which left one peacekeeper dead and four wounded.

Press Release
SG/SM/7475

RAOUL WALLENBERG’S EXAMPLE ‘WILL LIVE FOREVER IN OUR CONSCIOUSNESS’ SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN BUDAPEST REMARKS

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at Raoul Wallenberg Park in Budapest, Hungary, on 30 June:

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SG/SM/7474

SECRETARY-GENERAL DISTRESSED BY FERRY BOAT SINKING IN INDONESIA, CONCERNED OVER ESCALATING VIOLENCE IN NORTHERN PROVINCES

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

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SG/SM/7473

GREECE AND FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA MEET UNDER SECRETARY-GENERAL’S AUSPICES

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

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SG/SM/7470
AFR/249

SECRETARY-GENERAL GRATIFIED TO LEARN OF RELEASE OF 21 UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SIERRA LEONE (UNAMSIL) PERSONNEL

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