ALL MUST WORK TOGETHER TO COUNTER TERRORISM, PREVENT SPREAD

OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is today’s statement as delivered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, at the special meeting of the Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee:

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY DEPLORES’ USE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE

BY ISRAEL IN GAZA REFUGEE CAMP

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS G-8 CONTACT GROUP ON FOOD SECURITY

IN AFRICA THAT CONTINENT FACES DEADLY BURDENS

Following are remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the opening meeting of the G-8 Contact Group on Food Security in Africa in New York:

I am pleased to welcome you to the United Nations for this first meeting of your contact group.

SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEASED WITH SECURITY COUNCIL SUPPORT

FOR HIS EFFORTS TO ASSIST PARTIES IN CYPRUS

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

The Secretary-General was pleased with the support he received in the Security Council yesterday for his efforts to assist the parties in Cyprus reach a comprehensive settlement.

SECRETARY-GENERAL GRAVELY CONCERNED AT ESCALATING VIOLENCE

BETWEEN ISRAELIS, PALESTINIANS

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

The Secretary-General is gravely and increasingly concerned by the steady escalation in violence between Israelis and Palestinians, which has left

HUMAN COMMUNITY SHOULD BE LINKED IN COMMON EFFORT TO PROTECT, SHARE WATER EQUITABLY, SUSTAINABLY, PEACEFULLY SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL ON WORLD DAY

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on World Water Day, which is observed 22 March:

AFRICAN CINEMA CAN HELP MOBILIZE RESOURCES, ENERGY NEEDED TO REACH

MILLENNIUM GOALS, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the message by Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan to the eighteenth Pan-African Film and Television Festival in Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso (22 February -- 3 March):

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘VERY SATISFIED’ WITH OUTCOME OF MISSION RELATING TO CYPRUS SETTLEMENT; SAYS PLAN FOR SETTLEMENT IS ‘FAIR AND BALANCED’

      The following statement was issued today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Larnaca, Cyprus:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES POLISARIO TO ACCELERATE RELEASE

OF REMAINING PRISONERS OF WAR

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED AT LOSS OF LIFE FROM EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA

The following statement was issued today by the spokesman for

Secretary-General Kofi Annan: