SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES 13 MAY ADOPTION OF DRAFT CONSTITUTION

BY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

 

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

UN IS WORK IN PROGRESS, MUST MOVE WITH THE TIMES, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

IN UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS

 

Following is the text of the commencement address delivered today in Philadelphia by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the University of Pennsylvania:  A Future “In Larger Freedom”:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON ALL PARTIES IN GUINEA-BISSAU TO REFRAIN

 

FROM EXACERBATing TENSIONS, UNDERMINING TRANSITIONAL PROCESS

The following statement was issued on 15 May by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEPLORES OUTBREAK OF VIOLENCE IN UZBEKISTAN,

 

CALLS FOR COOPERATION WITH REFUGEE AGENCY EMERGENCY TEAM

 

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

‘WE MUST BREACH CYCLES OF POVERTY’, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

 

IN MESSAGE TO ESCAP SESSION

 

Following is the message by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the sixty-first session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in Bangkok today, delivered by Kim Hak-Su, Executive Secretary, ESCAP:

Role of biodiversity central in underpinning sustainable development, protecting

 

society, says Secretary-General in message for international day

Following is the text of the message by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the International Day for Biological Diversity, 22 May 2005:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES FULL RESPECT FOR BLUE LINE BETWEEN LEBANON, ISRAEL

FOLLOWING EXCHANGE OF FIRE, ‘WORRIESOME ESCALATION’

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL, GRAVELY CONCERNED OVER ROCKET ATTACK FROM LEBANON

INTO ISRAEL, REITERATES CALL FOR END TO ALL SUCH ATTACKS

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

The Secretary-General was gravely concerned over the firing of a Katyusha rocket from Lebanon into the village of Shlomi in northern Israel last night.  The rocket caused damage to property but, fortunately, no casualties.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WARMLY WELCOMES CANADIAN ANNOUNCEMENT

 

OF SUBSTANTIAL MILITARY SUPPORT FOR DARFUR

 

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

FRAMEWORK BEYOND KYOTO NEEDED THAT EMBRACES ALL COUNTRIES, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

IN VIDEO MESSAGE TO INVESTORS SUMMIT ON CLIMATE RISK

Following is the text of the video message by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the second Investors Summit on Climate Risk today:

Dear friends,

It is an honour to welcome you back to the United Nations for this important and truly international event.