DESPITE SEA-CHANGE IN GLOBAL ATTITUDES, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES STILL SUFFER

FROM PREJUDICE AND ILL-WILL, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS PERMANENT FORUM

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the opening of the third session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on 10 May:

SECRETARY-GENERAL appalled by mosque terror attack in pakistan

The following is the text of a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General is appalled by the news of yet another attack in a place of worship, this time in a mosque in the city of Karachi in Pakistan, which has reportedly killed about a dozen innocent worshippers and wounded about 100 more.

SECRETARY-GENERAL ASSURES OIL-FOR-FOOD INQUIRY

OF FULL COOPERATION OF ALL UN STAFF

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

Secretary-General invokes individual humanity of refugees

at anniversary dinner in his honour

The following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at the twenty-fifth anniversary dinner of Refugees International in McLean, Virginia, yesterday, 4 May:

Thank you, Nane.  As you say, it is indeed hard to imagine what it is like to be a refugee.

SECRETARY-GENERAL, MARKING WORLD TELECOMMUNICATION DAY, SAYS AFFORDABLE

TECHNOLOGIES CAN BE EFFECTIVE ENGINES OF SOCIAL, MATERIAL CHANGE

The following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on World Telecommunication Day, 17 May 2004:

Press Conference by Middle East Quartet (russian federation, united states,

european union, united nations), New York, 4 May 2004

The Secretary-General: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.  Thank you for waiting.  Let me now read you what the Quartet has agreed:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS UN, EUROPEAN UNION NATURAL PARTNERS

IN MULTILATERAL SYSTEM AS EUROPE CELEBRATES ENLARGEMENT

The following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the occasion of European Union enlargement, delivered in New York, yesterday, 3 May, by Shashi Tharoor, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Public Information and Communications:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO CONSULTATION ON EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE

DEVELOPMENT, STRESSES LEARNING FROM CHILDHOOD TO UNIVERSITY

The following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s video message to the International Consultation on Education for Sustainable Development, in Göteborg, Sweden, from 4 to 7 May:

The subject of your meeting is one that should deeply concern us all:  the future of our one and only planet.

Secretary-General, in message to mark world press freedom day,

stresses need to get out good news, as well as bad

The following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks on World Press Freedom Day, in New York today, 3 May 2004:

if evil must be named, it is ‘intolerance, exclusion’,

Secretary-General tells trinity institute conference

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the thirty-fifth National Conference of the Trinity Institute, in New York, 2 May: