SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES NEW PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF BURUNDI,

NOTES ONGOING VIOLENCE AND INSTABILITY DESPITE CEASEFIRE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on the occasion of the swearing-in of the President and Vice-President of Burundi for the second phase of the transition, delivered by Berhanu Dinka, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Burundi, in Bujumbura on 30 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPEALS TO SECURITY COUNCIL TO SET ASIDE

PAST DIFFERENCES ON IRAQ AND FIND NEW UNITY

Following is the statement, as delivered, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council meeting on 30 April, devoted to wrapping up the Council’s work for the current month:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES NEW PRIME MINISTER OF PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY, CALLS SWEARING-IN OF ABU MAZEN ‘NOTABLE STEP’ IN BUILDING DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS TERRORIST ATTACK IN TEL AVIV,

SAYS IT MUST NOT DERAIL PEACE PROCESS

The following statement was issued on 29 April by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPEALS TO SECURITY COUNCIL, WIDER INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

FOR FUNDS TO SECURE PEACE IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE

Following is the statement, as delivered, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council meeting devoted to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on 29 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES RELEASE OF MIDDLE EAST ‘ROAD MAP’,

URGES BOTH ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS TO EMBRACE PLAN

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

TRAGIC LEGACY OF CHERNOBYL WILL REMAIN FOR GENERATIONS TO COME SAYS

SECRETARY-GENERAL ON ANNIVERSARY OF NUCLEAR PLANT ACCIDENT

The following statement was issued 26 April by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the seventeenth anniversary of the Chernobyl accident:

Twenty-six April marks the seventeenth anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

DESPITE ACHIEVEMENTS IN CHEMICAL DISARMAMENT, NO ROOM FOR COMPLACENCY,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS STATES PARTIES TO CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION

      Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the First Review Conference of the States parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention, delivered by Enrique Roman-Morey, Director of the Disarmament Affairs Geneva Branch, at
The Hague today:

REPRESENTATIVES OF GREECE, FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

EXCHANGE VIEWS PURSUANT TO INTERIM ACCORD

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

HUMAN RIGHTS –- WHETHER CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL OR CULTURAL –- ARE

UNIVERSAL, MUST BE UPHELD IN EVERY COUNTRY, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the statement, as delivered, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva today: