RESPONDING TO ISRAEL BOMB ATTACK, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

PEACE PROCESS MUST NOT BE DERAILED

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

The Secretary-General was appalled by this morning’s bomb attack in northern Israel.

It comes at a time when there is a concerted international effort to convene a peace conference on the Middle East.

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS ‘TIMELY’ ASIA CONFIDENCE-BUILDING SUMMIT EVIDENCE

NATIONS CAN WORK TOGETHER IN PRACTICAL WAYS TO PROMOTE COMMON SECURITY

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the summit meeting of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building in Asia (CICA), delivered on his behalf by Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Danilo Turk in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on 4 June:

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEPLORES RECENT PUBLIC ATTACKS AGAINST MISSION

IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL VISITS MEMORIAL TO UKRAINIAN JEWS KILLED IN 1941 AT BABI YAR;

VOWS ALL HIS POWER ‘TO FIGHT THE HATRED AND EVIL THAT SO DISFIGURE OUR WORLD’

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 3 June at the monument to Ukrainian Jews killed in 1941 at Babi Yar:

PARTNERSHIP, RESOURCES, ACTION BY YOUNG NEEDED IN AIDS FIGHT,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO UKRAINE AIDS COMMISSION

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the partnership meeting with the Inter-Ministerial AIDS Commission of Ukraine in Kiev on 3 June:

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY DEATH OF NIGERIAN DIPLOMAT JOSEPH GARBA,

WHO SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF FORTY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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

ACCEPTING UKRAINIAN AWARD, SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES COUNTRY

ON PATH TAKEN SINCE INDEPENDENCE

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on receiving the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise in Kiev, Ukraine, on 3 June:

You have truly honoured me by giving me this order.  I know that Yaroslav the Wise is one of your country’s most respected historical figures -- and I shall certainly wear his order with respect.

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED AT DEATH OF FORMER SWEDISH AMBASSADOR GUNNAR JARRING

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES EUROPEAN UNION RATIFICATION OF KYOTO PROTOCOL

Following are the remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the luncheon hosted by Ambassador Inocencio Arias of Spain, on the occasion of the ratification by the European Union and the European Commission of the Kyoto Protocol: