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SG/SM/9343
03/06/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9343

Secretary-General condemns murder of five aid workers in Afghanistan


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


The Secretary-General was distressed and angered to learn of the cold-blooded killing yesterday of five staff of Médecins sans Frontières on the road between Khairkhana and Qala-I-Naw, Badghis province, Afghanistan.

SG/SM/9340
01/06/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9340


Secretary-General, in message on buddhism’s day of vesak, calls for sustained


campaign to rebuild trust between different faiths, cultures


Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the “International Recognition of the Day of Vesak Ceremony” in New York, 1 June:


It gives me great pleasure to send my warmest greetings to this international observance of the Day of Vesak.

SG/SM/9338-AFR/953
01/06/2004
Press Release
SG/SM/9338
AFR/953


in message to ‘handover’ ceremony for un operation in burundi, Secretary-General


pledges to work ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with people to build better future


Following is the message by the Secretary-General Kofi Annan, read out by Berhanu Dinka, Special Representative for Burundi, at the handover ceremony from the African Mission in Burundi to the United Nations Operation in Burundi, in Bujumbura today: