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SG/SM/9449
19/08/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9449

Haiti can count on UN for help in regaining peace, stability, prosperity,


Secretary-General says in message for Brazil-Haiti football match


Following is the text of the video message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, translated from French, on the occasion of the Brazil-Haiti football match in Port-au-Prince on 18 August:


Nations Unies ap di nou onè respè!  [Greetings to everyone from the United Nations!]

SG/SM/9452
19/08/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9452

REMARKS BY SECRETARY-GENERAL INTRODUCING BRAZILIAN


CULTURE MINISTER GILBERTO GIL AT CONCERT


Following are the remarks delivered in Geneva today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan when he introduced Brazilian Culture Minister Gilberto Gil at the concert marking the first anniversary of the attack on United Nations headquarters in Baghdad:

SG/SM/9450-IK/453
19/08/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9450
IK/453

‘We will long feel the pain, but our sense of mission is intact’, Secretary-General


says on anniversary of attack on un Baghdad headquarters


Following is the text of remarks, as delivered today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the ceremony in Geneva marking the first anniversary of the attack on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad:

SG/SM/9453
19/08/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9453

IN MESSAGE TO VOLUNTEER CONFERENCE, SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES


CONTRIBUTION OF SHARON CAPELING-ALAKIJA


Following is the text of the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the eighteenth Volunteer Conference of the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE), delivered today in Barcelona by Gillian Sorensen, Senior Adviser, United Nations Foundation: