WORK FOR DEVELOPMENT MUST FOCUS ON NEEDS, PRIORITIES OF WOMEN, SECRETARY-GENERAL

SAYS IN MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan for International Women’s Day, 8 March 2003:

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPALLED BY ATTACK ON SHIITE MOSQUE IN PAKISTAN

The following statement was issued today by the spokesman for

Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS WAR NOT INEVITABLE, BUT IRAQ MUST DISARM;

INSPECTIONS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Thirteenth Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, delivered today by Lakhdar Brahimi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia:

SECRETARY-GENERAL ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO SET UP HIGH-LEVEL COMMISSION ON HIV/AIDS

AND GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA IN ADDRESS TO AFRICA-FRANCE SUMMIT

Following is the address of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Africa-France Summit in Paris on 20 February:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ‘QUARTET’ STATEMENT ON MIDDLE EAST VIOLENCE

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

IRAQ CRISIS MUST NOT AFFECT DETERMINATION TO CARRY OUT UN’S WIDER AGENDA,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN ROME ADDRESS

Following is the address of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Governing Council of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, on its twenty-fifth anniversary, in Rome on 19 February:

VIOLENCE WILL NOT PRODUCE SECURITY OR LASTING PEACE, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL,

FOLLOWING LATEST ESCALATION IN MIDDLE EAST

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

QUARTET ‘ROAD MAP’ AIMS AT ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN STATES IN MIDEAST,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE

Following is the text of the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the opening meeting of the 2003 session of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, delivered by his Chef de Cabinet,

S. Iqbal Riza:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ANNOUNCEMENT BY PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY

PRESIDENT ARAFAT TO APPOINT PRIME MINISTER

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

LITERACY IS KEY TO A FUTURE OF FREEDOM AND HOPE FOR MANKIND

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AT LAUNCH OF UN LITERACY DECADE

      Following is the text of the remarks delivered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at a ceremony held on Thursday evening, 13 February, at the New York Public Library, to mark the launch of the United Nations Literacy Decade (2003-2012):