SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY ALARMED’ BY RAPIDLY ESCALATING VIOLENCE IN MIDDLE EAST

Calls on Prime Minister Sharon,

Chairman Arafat to Exercise Responsible Leadership

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

ZINNI CEASEFIRE PROPOSALS SHOULD BE ACCEPTED BY PALESTINIANS; ISRAEL SHOULD HALT

ASSAULT ON PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Following are remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at today’s open meeting of the Security Council on the Middle East:

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IS ANTIDOTE TO SEDENTARY, UNHEALTHY LIFESTYLES,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN WORLD HEALTH DAY MESSAGE

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on World Health Day, 7 April:

“Move for Health”, the theme for World Health Day 2002, is literally a call to action.

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SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS YESTERDAY’S MIDEAST BOMBING

‘GREATLY DAMAGES PALESTINIAN CAUSE’

BEIRUT, 28 March (UN Information Centre) -– The following statement was issued today by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Commission on Sustainable Development

Acting as Preparatory Committee for

 World Summit on Sustainable Development

3^rd Meeting (PM)

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT PREPARATORY COMMITTEE HEARS REPORT

ON RECENT ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS' MEETING IN CARTAGENA

Security Council

4502^nd Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL, SUPPORTING ‘INCREMENTAL’ UN APPROACH TO PEACE-BUILDING

Special Committee on

Decolonization

2^nd Meeting (AM)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS REMOVAL OF INDEPENDENT EAST TIMOR

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE CONCERNING SIERRA LEONE ADOPTS

REVISED CONSOLIDATED GUIDELINES FOR ITS WORK

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution

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