SG/SM/8537

EVENTS IN AFGHANISTAN PROMPT OPTIMISM, BUT ‘STEADY DETERMINATION’ REQUIRED

TO SEE TASK THROUGH, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO TALKS IN GERMANY

Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan delivered by the Special Representative for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, to the 2002 Bonn talks on Afghanistan in Petersberg, Germany, on 2 December:

MULTIFACETED, INTEGRATED, PROACTIVE DISASTER MANAGEMENT URGENTLY NEEDED,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO BUDAPEST MEETING

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the high-level meeting on Sustainable Flood Management, delivered on his behalf by Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme, in Budapest,

30 November to 1 December:

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SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS MOMBASA TERRORIST ATTACKS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY, STRESSES NEED

TO FIGHT `EXCLUSION’ OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

This is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to mark the International Day of Disabled Persons, 3 December:

DAY OF PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY `A DAY OF MOURNING

AND A DAY OF GRIEF’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, delivered on his behalf by S. Iqbal Riza, Under-Secretary-General and Chef de Cabinet, New York, 29 November:

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SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE FOR FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF OTTAWA CONVENTION,

LOOKS TO TOTAL ELIMINATION OF LANDMINES, CONTINUED CARE FOR VICTIMS

This is the text of a message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the ceremony in Ottawa marking the fifth anniversary of the opening for signature of the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines (delivered on his behalf by Martin Barber, Chief, United Nations Mine Action Service):

MARKING HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR VISION

TO BRING ABOUT NEW EQUILIBRIUM IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Globalization, Terrorism, Universality of Human Rights

Part of Shift in Interaction between States, Peoples, He Says

Following is the text of the message issued by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of Human Rights Day, 10 December: