TOLERANCE, INTER-CULTURAL DIALOGUE, RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY MORE ESSENTIAL THAN EVER,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE FOR DAY TO ELIMINATE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 21 March 2004:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR REDEDICATION TO MISSION OF HALTING,

REVERSING GLOBAL TB INCIDENCE, IN MESSAGE ON WORLD DAY

Following is Secretary General Kofi Annan’s message on the occasion of World TB Day, observed 24 March:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, MARKING WOMEN’S DAY, HAILS HEROIC LEADERS OF FIGHT

AGAINST HIV/AIDS, URGING THEIR FURTHER EMPOWERMENT

Society’s Inequalities Put Women

At Unjust, Unconscionable, Untenable Risk, He Says

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks on International Women’s Day in New York today, 8 March:

WOMEN REAL HEROES OF FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL,

AS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY OBSERVED AT HEADQUARTERS

It was among women that the real heroes of the war against HIV/AIDS were to be found, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said this morning at the annual Headquarters observance of International Women’s Day, which this year focused on women and HIV/AIDS.

SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS HEROIC WOMEN LEADING FIGHT IN HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC, SAYS

THEIR FURTHER EMPOWERMENT KEY TO GLOBAL RESPONSE, IN WOMEN’S DAY MESSAGE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on International Women’s Day, which is observed 8 March:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS DAY MESSAGE,

UNDERLINES NEED TO MAXIMIZE BENEFITS OF MIGRATION

Following is the text of Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan’s message on International Migrants Day, 18 December 2003:

FAMILIES PLAY VITAL ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT, PEACE EFFORTS, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

AT LAUNCH OF TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF INTERNATIONAL YEAR

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the launch of the observance of the tenth anniversary of the International Year of the Family (2004) today:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, OBSERVING HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, STRESSES

THAT DEFENDING RIGHTS IS RESPONSIBILITY OF ALL

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on Human Rights Day, 10 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES NEED FOR POLITICAL SOLUTION TO ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN

CONFLICT IN STATEMENT TO COMMITTEE

Each Side Wounds Itself by Harming the Other,

He Says in Message to Mark International Day of Solidarity

‘LET US LISTEN TO DISABLED PERSONS –- NOT JUST ON THIS DAY, BUT EVERY DAY’,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE ON INTERNATIONAL DAY

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the International Day of Disabled Persons, observed 3 December: