Statements and Messages

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:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR GENEROUS COMMITMENT FROM INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

TO HELP HAITI THROUGH DIFFICULT TRANSITION, IN MESSAGE TO DONORS CONFERENCE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the International Donors Conference on Haiti, delivered by Juan Gabriel Valdes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti, in Washington, D.C., 20 July:

IN BANGKOK, SECRETARY-GENERAL DISCUSSES MYANMAR SITUATION

WITH THAI PRIME MINISTER, FOREIGN MINISTER

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES PEACEFUL ATTITUDE DURING BOLIVIA’S UPCOMING REFERENDUM

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

The Secretary-General is following with great interest the upcoming referendum on 18 July 2004 concerning the abrogation of the national hydrocarbons law, as well as the key principles for the management of the gas sector in the future.