Statements and Messages

Press Release
SG/SM/7340

SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEASED BY CONCLUSION OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION ELECTIONS, EXTENDS BEST WISHES TO PRESIDENT-ELECT VLADIMIR PUTIN

Press Release
SG/SM/7339
PKO/87

ADDRESSING SHIRBRIG MEETING, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MUST REMAIN VIGILANT AND MAINTAIN PREPAREDNESS

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address, “Peacekeeping in the Twenty-first Century”, to the Standby High Readiness Brigade Ministerial Meeting, which was held at Rockefeller Center in New York this morning:

Press Release
SG/SM/7341
DC/2689

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION HAS MADE IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

The following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction:

Press Release
SG/SM/7338
SC/6834

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS SECURITY COUNCIL SHOULD SEEK EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO ALLEVIATE SUFFERING OF PEOPLE OF IRAQ

Kofi Annan Particularly Concerned about Situation of Iraqi Children

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement to the Security Council today at Headquarters on the humanitarian situation in Iraq:

Press Release
SG/SM/7337
SC/6831

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S STATEMENT TO SECURITY COUNCIL ON ROLE OF UN PEACEKEEPING IN DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION AND REINTEGRATION

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement to the Security Council as it met today at Headquarters to consider the role of United Nations Peacekeeping in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration:

Press Release
SG/SM/7336

REGIONAL INSTITUTIONS HAVE VITAL ROLE IN GLOBAL MISSION FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT, SECRETARY GENERAL TELLS UNITED NATIONS-CARICOM MEETING

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the second meeting of representatives of the United Nations system and the Caribbean Community and its associate institutions, which will be held in the Bahamas on 27 and 28 March:

Press Release
SG/SM/7335

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES OUTRAGE OVER REPORTED MASSACRE ON INDIAN SIDE OF LINE OF CONTROL IN KASHMIR

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

Press Release
SG/SM/7334
ENV/DEV/534

UN COMMITTED TO ENSURING WORLD WATER SECURITY AND ‘BLUE REVOLUTION’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO WORLD WATER FORUM

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the World Water Forum in The Hague, to be delivered on his behalf by the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Klaus Toepfer, on 22 March:

Press Release
SG/SM/7333
RD/897

WITH PERSEVERANCE, FAITH, COMMITMENT, RACISM CAN BE ELIMINATED, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE ON INTERNATIONAL DAY

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which is observed 21 March:

Press Release
SG/SM/7332

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY DEATH OF ‘ALLY AND FRIEND’ MORRIS ABRAM

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan concerning the death of Morris Abram, who died yesterday in Geneva: