SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED AT DEATH OF FORMER GERMAN PRESIDENT JOHANNES RAU

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

The Secretary-General learned with great sadness of the death of Johannes Rau, former Federal President of Germany.

Secretary-General seriously concerned by major escalation of violence in darfur

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

Remembering is safeguard for future, Secretary-General says in message

 

for first international day Honouring memory of holocaust victims

 

‘THE UNITED NATIONS CANNOT STAND STILL, BECAUSE THE THREATS TO HUMANITY

DO NOT STAND STILL’, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS DAVOS WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

Secretary-General says peaceful Palestinian legislative elections

important step towards achievement of Palestinian state

 

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

Secretary-General welcomes February Resumption of talks on sri lanka

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

In message to conference on disarmament, Secretary-General calls

for new political consensus on arms control priorities

 

‘SPORT CONTRIBUTES TO PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH’,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT MEDIA LUNCH IN DAVOS

Following is the text of remarks as delivered today by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the media lunch on “The Impact of Sport in the World”, in Davos, Switzerland:

Un legal counsel to travel to Lebanon for discussions

concerning rafik hariri investigation

 

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

‘MAY THE SERENITY OF THE OLYMPIC FLAME SILENCE THE SOUND OF GUNFIRE’,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, URGING OLYMPIC TRUCE DURING WINTER GAMES

Following is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message calling for observance of the Olympic Truce during the XXth Olympic Winter Games in Turin from 10 to 26 of February: