Statements and Messages

TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF RWANDA GENOCIDE SHOULD PROMPT REMORSE, RESOLVE

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO OTTAWA SYMPOSIUM

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Symposium on the Media and the Rwanda Genocide at Carleton University School of Journalism and Communication in Ottawa, 13 March:

ROAD MAP REMAINS ‘MOST PRACTICAL WAY’ TO ACHIEVE ASPIRATIONS OF ISRAELIS,

PALESTINIANS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE

Following is today’s statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the opening of the 2004 session of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People:

TOLERANCE, INTER-CULTURAL DIALOGUE, RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY MORE ESSENTIAL THAN EVER,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE FOR DAY TO ELIMINATE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 21 March 2004:

ARRANGEMENTS BEING MADE TO READ CONTENTS OF RWANDA ‘BLACK BOX’,

FOUND AT UN HEADQUARTERS

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

CHALLENGES OF TODAY’S ‘GLOBAL VILLAGE’ – FEAR, WANT, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION

MUST BE ADDRESSED TOGETHER SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT OTTAWA CEREMONY

Following are Secretary-General’s Kofi Annan’s remarks on receiving honorary degrees from Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, in Ottawa on 9 March:

President Van Loon, Rector Patry, Distinguished Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Ladies and gentlemen,

SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE VITAL PART OF COUNTRY’S HEALING PROCESS,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO OPENING

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message for the opening of the buildings of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, delivered by Hans Correll, Legal Counsel of the United Nations, in Freetown, 10 March:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR REDEDICATION TO MISSION OF HALTING,

REVERSING GLOBAL TB INCIDENCE, IN MESSAGE ON WORLD DAY

Following is Secretary General Kofi Annan’s message on the occasion of World TB Day, observed 24 March:

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES ‘STRONG AND INVALUABLE’ PARTNERSHIP

BETWEEN CANADA, UN AT OTTAWA WELCOME CEREMONY

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at a welcome ceremony hosted by the Governor-General in Ottawa, 8 March:

I am deeply moved by those kind words, and by this warm welcome.

Nane and I always look forward to visiting Canada, even though we don’t come here often enough.

CHALLENGES OF TODAY’S ‘GLOBAL VILLAGE’ –- FEAR, WANT, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGREDATION

MUST BE ADDRESSED TOGETHER SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT OTTAWA CEREMONY

Following are Secretary-General’s Kofi Annan’s remarks on receiving honorary degrees from CarletonUniversity and the University of Ottawa, in Ottawa on 9 March:

President Van Loon, Rector Patry, Distinguished Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Ladies and gentlemen,

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES ‘STRONG AND INVALUABLE’ PARTNERSHIP

BETWEEN CANADA, UN AT OTTAWA WELCOME CEREMONY

Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks at a welcome ceremony hosted by the Governor-General in Ottawa, 8 March:

I am deeply moved by those kind words, and by this warm welcome.

Nane and I always look forward to visiting Canada, even though we don’t come here often enough.