SECRETARY-GENERAL NOTES UN’S ‘ENDURING SYSTEM-WIDE COMMITMENT TO FAMILIES’

 

AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY COMMEMORATES tenth ANNIVERSARY OF INTERNATIONAL YEAR

 

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks to the General Assembly on the Tenth Anniversary of the International Year of the Family in New York, 6 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL PROFOUNDLY SADDENED BY LOSS OF LIFE, DESTRUCTION

 

WROUGHT BY POWERFUL STORMS IN PHILIPPINES

 

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

IN ADDRESS TO SUMMIT ON MINE-FREE WORLD, SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEDGES

SUPPORT IN IMPLEMENTING STRATEGY FOR NEXT FIVE YEARS

He Also Underlines Need to Keep Mine Victims’ Needs Constantly in Mind

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address via satellite link-up to the Nairobi Summit on a Mine-Free World today, 3 December 2004:

Secretary-General, in message to mark international human rights day,

says human rightS equip people to live in security, dignity

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on International Human Rights Day, observed on 10 December 2004:

Secretary-General disturbed by increasing tension

 

between Democratic Republic of Congo, rwanda

 

Following is a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

educating girls on protection a necessity, not an option, Secretary-General

stresses in remarks to world aids day event

 

Real, Positive Change Will Allow Women to Play

Their Role Fully in Struggle against HIV/AIDS, He Says

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the World AIDS Day event at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York, yesterday, 1 December:

Secretary-General, marking international day of disabled persons,

 

calls for changes in thinking about their place in society

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the International Day of Disabled Persons, observed on 3 December 2004:

Secretary-General CALLS FOR CHANGE OF MINDSET AMONG BUSINESS LEADERS

IN REMARKS AT WALL STREET WORLD AIDS DAY EVENT

 

Corporate Programmes to Educate Workforce

Can Become Cornerstone of Global Prevention Campaign, He Stresses

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at Wall Street World Aids Day in New York, today, 1 December 2004:

universality is strength of volunteerism, Secretary-General says

in message to mark international volunteer day

 

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on International Volunteer Day, observed on 5 December 2004:

‘TELLING TALES’ ANTHOLOGY, AIMED AT RAISING FUNDS FOR ANTI-AIDS EFFORT, ‘INSPIRING

DISPLAY OF COMPASSION’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT NEW YORK LAUNCH

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the event celebrating the publication of “Telling Tales” anthology, edited by Nadine Gordimer, in New York, 30 November:

I hesitate to speak in the presence of so many gifted wordsmiths.  But I will try anyway.