TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN AND SPECIAL

REPRESENTATIVE FOR IRAQ, SERGIO VIEIRA DE MELLO, 27 MAY

The Secretary-General:  Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen.

INFORMATION AGE CREATES VAST OPPORTUNITIES, BUT ALSO GENERATES NEW ‘DIVIDES’,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO BANGKOK CONFERENCE

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the first Conference of Ministers on “Information and Broadcasting in Asia and the Pacific”, delivered by Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, in Bangkok 27 May:

SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEDGES UN SUPPORT TO IRAQ IN ‘COMPLEX AND DIFFICULT’

TASKS AHEAD, IN MESSAGE TO SECURITY COUNCIL

Following is the text of remarks, as delivered, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to today’s Security Council meeting on “The Situation between Iraq and Kuwait” in New York:

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY SADDENED’ BY HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE

FOLLOWING ALGERIAN EARTHQUAKE, OFFERS UN ASSISTANCE

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

‘PEACEKEEPING BY ITSELF CANNOT END WAR, BUT IT CAN HELP PREVENT A RECURRENCE

OF FIGHTING’, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN PEACEKEEPERS’ DAY MESSAGE

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, 29 May:

‘ENVIRONMENT FOR EUROPE’ GOOD EXAMPLE OF CROSS-BORDER ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE TO KYIV CONFERENCE

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the fifth Ministerial Conference “Environment for Europe”, being held in Kyiv, Ukraine, 21-23 May, delivered by Brigita Schmögnerová, Executive Secretary, United NationsEconomic Commission for Europe:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES ANGUILLA GATHERING TO WORK

TOWARDS COMPLETION OF DECOLONIZATION

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the opening of the Caribbean Regional Seminar on Decolonization and the observance of the week of solidarity with the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories, at The Valley, Anguilla, 20-22 May:

LASTING PEACE AND SECURITY IN CENTRAL AFRICA STILL SLOW

IN ARRIVING, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

(Delayed for translation of text, originally delivered in French.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘PROFOUNDLY SADDENED’ AT DEATHS OF MILITARY OBSERVERS;

CALLS ON ALL CONGOLESE PARTIES TO RENOUNCE VIOLENCE

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS SUICIDE ATTACKS AGAINST ISRAELIS,

URGES PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS

The following statement was issued by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 18 May: