SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS TURKEY’S CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL CELEBRATES DIVERSITY IN SPIRIT

OF FRIENDSHIP, PEACE, FAITHFULLY REFLECTING UN’S IDEAS

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the International Children’s Festival, delivered by Jakob Simonsen, United Nations Development Programme Resident Coordinator, in Anatolia, 23 April:

BLACK SEA ECONOMIC COOPERATION ORGANIZATION IS VALUABLE PARTNER

OF UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the eighth meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (BSEC), delivered by Sergei Ordzhonikidze,
Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva, in Yerevan, on 18 April:

RIGHT TO LIVE FREE FROM INTIMIDATION, FORCED EXPULSION MUST BE RESPECTED,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, FOLLOWING REPORTS OF VIOLENCE IN NORTHERN IRAQ

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

VITAL TO HEAL DIVISIONS CREATED BY IRAQ, REUNITE AROUND BASIC PRINCIPLES

TO GUIDE FUTURE ACTIONS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN ATHENS STATEMENT

Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the European Conference in Athens, 17 April:

It is a great honour for me to join you on this historic occasion.

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES BEIJING TALKS INVOLVING UNITED STATES,

DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, CHINA

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS CATASTROPHIC LOSSES TO IRAQ’S CULTURAL HERITAGE

‘A WOUND INFLICTED ON ALL HUMANKIND’

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS UN NATURAL HOME FOR NEEDED DIALOGUE AMONG TRADE,

DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS, IN STATEMENT TO HIGH-LEVEL ECOSOC MEETING

Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, delivered on his behalf by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette, to the special high-level meeting of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) with the Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organization in New York on 14 April:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONCERNED RECENT STATEMENTS DIRECTED AT SYRIA

NOT CONTRIBUTE TO WIDER DESTABILIZATION

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

EXPLORING ROOT CAUSES OF CONFLICT ONLY WAY TO BUILD ENDURING PEACE,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO BEIRUT MEETING

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the twenty-second session of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), delivered by Mervat Tallawy, Executive Secretary, ESCWA, in Beirut on 14 April:

FRAMEWORK FOR PEACE, SECURITY MUST HAVE CAPACITY TO RESPOND SWIFTLY, EFFECTIVELY,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the text of opening remarks, as delivered, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to today’s meeting of the Security Council on regional organizations and new challenges to international peace and security: