SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES SUDAN GOVERNMENT DECISION TO HALT

AIR ATTACKS IN NUBA MOUNTAINS, SOUTHERN SUDAN

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES PROSPECT OF RENEWED INDIA-PAKISTAN DIALOGUE

AT HIGHEST LEVEL

      Following is the text of a statement issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES OAU ON ITS THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY

Following is the text of the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annanto the meeting marking the thirty-eighth anniversary of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), delivered on the Secretary-General's behalf by Under-Secretary-General Ibrahim Gambari, Special Adviser on Africa:

‘LET US BE GOOD STEWARDS OF THE EARTH WE INHERITED’ SECRETARY-

GENERAL URGES IN SALUTE TO WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to celebrate World Environment Day, 5 June:

SECRETARY-GENERAL SALUTES PARTICIPANTS AT HAVANA REGIONAL SEMINAR

ON DECOLONIZATION

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the opening of the Caribbean Regional Seminar on Decolonization and the observance of the Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories, Havana, 23-25 May:

SECRETARY-GENERAL DISMAYED AT REPORTS OF TALIBAN PROPOSAL

TO ORDER ‘IDENTITY LABELS’ FOR NON-MUSLIM AFGHANS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL ENVOY TO REVISIT MYANMAR, 1–4 JUNE

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

Razali Ismail, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Myanmar, will visit Yangon from 1 to 4 June to help facilitate the process of democratization and national reconciliation in Myanmar.  This will be his fourth mission to Myanmar.

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES SPEEDY SIGNATURE, RATIFICATION OF STOCKHOLM

CONVENTION ON PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS

Following is the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the opening for signature of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (Stockholm, 22-23 May), delivered by Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):

SECRETARY-GENERAL GIVES COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS AT FLETCHER SCHOOL OF LAW AND

DIPLOMACY, TUFTS UNIVERSITY:  'CONTAINING CLIMATE CHANGE: A GLOBAL CHALLENGE'

Following is the text of the commencement address delivered yesterday by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts:

It gives me great pleasure to join you for this very special day.

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY DISTURBED BY DISPROPORTIONATE ISRAELI RESPONSE

TO APPALLING TERRORIST ATTACK

Following is the text of a statement made today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the escalation of violence in the Middle East:

I am deeply disturbed by the disproportionate Israeli response to today's appalling terrorist attack in Netanya.