SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS AMENDED PROTOCOL TO PROHIBITIONS ON USE OF MINES,

BOOBY-TRAPS IN MESSAGE TO HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message delivered yesterday to the Fourth Annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to the

Amended Protocol in Geneva:

SECRETARY-GENERAL HAILS SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF UNITED NATIONS

MISSIONS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, PREVLAKA

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Security Council meeting on the conclusion of the United Nations missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Prevlaka, New York, 12 December 2002:

IN MESSAGE TO FOURTH GLOBAL FORUM ON REINVENTING GOVERNMENT, SECRETARY-GENERAL

GRAVE CONSEQUENCES AWAIT IF MILLENNIUM GOALS ON WATER, SANITATION GO

UNMET, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE FOR YEAR OF FRESHWATER

Developed Countries Also at Risk from Further

Environmental Damage, Food Insecurity, Instability, He Warns

Following is the text of a message issued by Secretary-General Kofi Annan today in observance of the International Year of Freshwater (2003):

‘OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UNITED STATES HAS IMPROVED REMARKABLY,’

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT LUNCHEON FOR UN FOUNDATION

Following is the text of remarks as delivered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, at the luncheon honouring Mr. R.E. Turner and the Board of Directors of the United Nations Foundation (UNF) in New York today:

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES NEED FOR DETERMINATION TO MAKE PROTECTION

OF CIVILIANS AN INESCAPABLE DUTY FOR ALL PARTIES IN CONFLICT

            Following is the statement delivered today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the meeting of the Security Council on the protection of civilians in armed conflict:

                                                            SG/SM/8551

                                                            SG/SM/8550/Rev.1*

'KNOWLEDGE MEANS POWER' -- AND THOSE WHO PROVIDE HONEST INFORMATION ARE

BEST ALLIES OF UN, SAYS KOFI ANNAN IN BBC WORLD SERVICE LECTURE

Secretary-General Announces

New World Service Series on 'Millennium Milestones'

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan's BBC World Service lecture, delivered in New York on 10 December:

IF SCIENCE IS TO REACH ITS FULL POTENTIAL FOR PEACE, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL,

WORLD MUST DO MORE TO END CONFLICTS, ADDRESS INEQUALITIES

Following is the speech by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the annual dinner of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science, New York,  8 December 2002: