SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS WORLD IS "FALLING SHORT" IN EFFORTS

TO MEET GOALS OF MILLENIUM DECLARATION

First Progress Report on Implementation of UN Plan

Shows Dramatic "Speed Up" Needed to Meet Targets Set for 2015

These are the opening remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan today at a Headquarters press conference on the first progress report on the implementation of the Millennium Declaration:

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SECRETARY-GENERAL AFFIRMS UN SUPPORT FOR SUBREGIONAL EFFORTS

TO RESOLVE CÔTE D'IVOIRE CRISIS

Following is a statement on the situation in Côte d'Ivoire by Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General continues to follow with deep concern the developments in Côte d’Ivoire.

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPLAUDS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

TECHNOLOGIES TASK FORCE'S EMPHASIS ON AFRICA

Following are the remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the opening of the third meeting of the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force:

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES COURAGE, DETERMINATION OF TIMOR-LESTE

AT HEADQUARTERS FLAG-RAISING CEREMONY

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the flag-raising ceremony for Timor-Leste in New York on 27 September:

Bom Dia,

This is an historic occasion.

IN WAKE OF GAZA ATTACK, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON ISRAEL TO HALT ALL SUCH ACTIONS

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

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‘TODAY’S REAL BORDER ARE NOT BETWEEN NATIONS, BUT BETWEEN POWERFUL AND POWERLESS,

FREE AND FETTERED, PRIVILEGED AND HUMILIATED’, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the

UNA-USA Dinner held in New York, on 25 September:

SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS MONGOLIA ON NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREE STATUS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES WITHDRAWAL OF ARMED FORCES

FROM DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

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