Statements and Messages

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON DARFUR

The Secretary-General welcomes the adoption today of resolution 1556 by the Security Council on the situation in Darfur, Sudan.

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR ‘COMMITMENT AND COMPROMISE’ TO MOVE COTED’IVOIRE

PEACE PROCESS FORWARD, IN REMARKS TO ACCRA MEETING

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the opening of the plenary session of the High-Level Meeting on Côte d’Ivoire:

SECRETARY-GENERAL GRAVELY CONCERNED ABOUT CONTINUED ATTACKS IN DARFUR

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

MEDIA POLICY MUST ENSURE COMMUNICATION REVOLUTION EMPOWERS ALL PEOPLE,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO COLOMBO CONFERENCE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development General Conference in Colombo, 26 July, delivered by Miguel Bermeo, United Nations Resident Coordinator and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Permanent Representative in Sri Lanka:

Secretary-General sets out priorities for his water/sanitation advisory board,

cites terrible cost of unsafe drinking water, poor sanitation

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks to the first session of his Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation:

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and dear friends, welcome.  It is indeed a pleasure to see you all here.

Secretary-General urges developed world to offer debt relief, end ‘scandal’

oF UNfair agricultural trade, in message on global anti-poverty goals

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s 21 July video message [for northern audiences] on the Millennium Development Goals:

Dear Friends,

You are here today because you believe in a better world.  So do I.

developing countries must integrate anti-poverty goals into policy, budgets,

improve governance says Secretary-General in video message

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s 21 July video message [for southern audiences] on the Millennium Development Goals:

Dear Friends,

You are here today because you believe in a better world.  So do I.

Today, it is fully within our power to eradicate poverty and hunger.

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN

AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, 21 July 2004

The Secretary-General: Good Morning, Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have just come from the Security Council, where I joined Jan Pronk, my Special Representative, to brief the Council on the situation in Sudan and Darfur.

UN NEEDS VITAL CONTRIBUTION OF REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN STABILIZING

WAR-TORN NATIONS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks to the Security Council meeting on cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations in the processes of stabilization, in New York, 20 July:

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S LATIN AMERICA SPECIAL ADVISER DEPARTS

ON FIVE-DAY MISSION TO VENEZUELA

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