SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES GREATER ATTENTION ON CONFLICT PREVENTION

Following is the text of a message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the International Colloquium on Peacekeeping and Conflict Prevention, delivered yesterday in Paris on the Secretary-General’s behalf by Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES HOPE THAT HEALING PROCESS CAN BEGIN

FOLLOWING LOCKERBIE VERDICT

Following is the text of a statement made in Stockholm today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the verdict in the Lockerbie trial:

IN ADDRESS TO WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, SECRETARY-GENERAL

SAYS GLOBALIZATION MUST WORK FOR ALL

Following is the text of an address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Davos, Switzerland, on 28 January to the World Economic Forum:

Let me begin by thanking our friend Klaus Schwab for his very kind introduction, and for inviting me to Davos again. 

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SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY EARTHQUAKE DEATHS IN INDIA AND PAKISTAN

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR GENEROUS RESPONSE TO AID APPEAL

ON BEHALF OF EL SALVADOR EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES RELEASE OF MYANMAR DETAINEES

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for

Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

      The Secretary-General welcomes the release on Wednesday of National League for Democracy Vice-Chairman U Tin Oo and 19 members of the party's youth wing, who were taken into detention four months ago.

SECRETARY-GENERAL PRAISES ‘REMARKABLE PARTNERSHIP’ BETWEEN UN, JAPAN

AT OPENING OF UN HOUSE IN TOKYO

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the opening of UN House in Tokyo on 24 January:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR FIRM AND CONCERTED ACTION AT CONFERENCE

ON DISARMAMENT TO OVERCOME LAST SESSION’S STALEMATE

Following is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.  The message was delivered at the Conference, opening today, on the Secretary-General’s behalf, by Vladimir Petrovsky, Director-General of the United Nations in Geneva:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON GOVERNMENTS TO DO THEIR PART

IN BRIDGING DIGITAL DIVIDE

Following is the text of a message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seminar in Kothmale, Sri Lanka, on the digital divide.  The message was delivered on the Secretary-General’s behalf on Sunday by Stella Hughes of UNESCO: