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SG/SM/8127
02/20/2002
Press Release
SG/SM/8127


SECRETARY-GENERAL EXTENDS DEEPEST CONDOLENCES FOLLOWING TRAIN FIRE IN EGYPT


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


            The Secretary-General is deeply saddened to learn of the fire that broke out on a moving train today, 40 miles south of Cairo, Egypt, and consumed the lives of upwards of 350 people, many of them children.

SG/SM/8126
19/02/2002
Press Release
SG/SM/8126


SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT NEW YORK AWARDS DINNER, PRAISES HONOUREES FOR USING ART


TO MOBILIZE PEOPLE FOR ‘VITAL JOB OF MAKING OUR WORLD A BETTER PLACE’


Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the second annual African Century Challenge Award Dinner, organized by Shared Interest, in New York on 18 February:

SG/SM/8124-UNEP/103
13/02/2002
Press Release
SG/SM/8124
UNEP/103


ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY MAKERS MUST PROVIDE ‘COHERENT VISION’ TO JOHANNESBURG


SUMMIT, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO GLOBAL FORUM


Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Cartagena, Colombia, delivered on his behalf by Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), on 13 February:

SG/SM/8122-GA/PAL/878
12/02/2002
Press Release
SG/SM/8122
GA/PAL/878


IMPLEMENTATION OF MITCHELL RECOMMENDATIONS, TENET UNDERSTANDINGS CRITICAL

TO STOPPING 'DEADLY SPIRAL OF VIOLENCE', SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS


Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the opening of the 2002 session of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People: