SECRETARY-GENERAL WILL MEET WITH PRESIDENTS OF NIGERIA, CAMEROON IN GENEVA

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

TRANSPARENCY, FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION ESSENTIAL TO TACKLING ROOT CAUSES OF MANY

CHALLENGES, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS PARIS MEETING ON GLOBAL COMPACT

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary General Kofi Annan at the meeting with French President Jacques Chirac and business executives on the Global Compact in Paris today:

SECRETARY GENERAL PRAISES GHANA’S ‘STEADFAST’, 40-YEAR COMMITMENT

TO UN PEACEKEEPING, IN MESSAGE TO INAUGURATION OF ACCRA CENTRE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message for the inauguration of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Centre, delivered by Alfred Fawundu, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Ghana, in Accra, 24 January:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WILL SEND ELECTION TEAM TO IRAQ, ONCE SATISFIED

WITH COALITION SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS

The following statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was issued today in Paris:

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED AT DEATH OF SVEN FREDERIKSEN, HEAD

OF EUROPEAN UNION POLICE MISSION TO BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

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

The Secretary-General is saddened to learn that Mr. Sven Frederiksen, the Head of the European Union Police Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, died earlier today in Sarajevo.

CONCERNED BY ‘DIFFICULT SITUATION’ IN SRI LANKA, SECRETARY-GENERAL

HOPES PEACE TALKS CAN RESUME IN NEAR FUTURE

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

AT WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON BUSINESS LEADERS TO EMBRACE

DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES AND FIGHT POVERTY, UNFAIR TRADE, SECURITY THREATS

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, today:

Five years ago, here in Davos, I asked you, the world’s business leaders, to join the United Nations on a journey.

FIGHTING POVERTY, STRENGTHENING SECURITY, REBUILDING TRUST SHOULD BE FOCUS

IN 2004, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, ACCEPTING GERMAN MEDIA AWARD

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address on accepting the 2003 Deutscher Medienpreis (German Media Award) in Baden-Baden, Germany, 21 January:

POLITICAL WILL ESSENTIAL IN OVERCOMING CURRENT IMPASSE,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, delivered today by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONCERNED BY INCREASED TENSION THREATENING

OUTBREAK OF HOSTILITIES IN SOMALIA

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