SECRETARY-GENERAL ENCOURAGED BY ORDERLY CONDUCT

OF ELECTION IN INDONESIA’S ACEH PROVINCE

 

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

IN MESSAGE TO DONORS, HOSTS MEETING, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS United Nations

PALESTINIAN RELIEF AGENCY ‘A FORCE FOR STABILITY’ DESERVING FULL FUNDING

TO FUNCTION MORE EFFECTIVELY, UNITED NATIONS NEEDS FAR-SIGHTED AMERICAN

LEADERSHIP, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT TRUMAN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY

Following is the text of the address today by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library in Independence, Missouri:

IN MESSAGE TO INTERNAL AUDIT REPRESENTATIVES, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS ‘rEASONABLE

HEADWAY’ HAS BEEN MADE ON United Nations MANAGEMENT REFORM

Secretary-General welcomes announced resumption

 

of six-party talks on Korean peninsula

 

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

Security Council

5583^rd Meeting* (AM)

IRAQ STANDS ON BRINK OF CIVIL WAR, ‘VIOLENCE SEEMS OUT OF CONTROL’,

 

SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

 

United States Says Sectarian Violence Greatest Threat to Stability;

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY DEATH OF JEANE KIRKPATRICK; SAYS FORMER

 

UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR COMMITTED TO EFFECTIVE UNITED NATIONS

 

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

Sixty-first General Assembly

Third Committee

55^th Meeting (AM)

Concluding current session, third committee approves draft decision

 

on programme planning concerning human rights

 

WORLD HAS MORAL OBLIGATION TO FIGHT POVERTY, PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS OF MOST VULNERABLE,

SAYS GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT IN HUMAN RIGHTS DAY MESSAGE

Secretary-General urges human rights activists to ‘fill leadership vacuum’,

hold world leaders to account, in address to international day event

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to mark International Human Rights Day in New York City, 8 December: