Statements and Messages

11 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7025

UN FOUNDED ON BELIEF THAT WORLD CAN YIELD TO FORCES OF CHANGE, TOLERANCE, HOPE SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, ACCEPTING 'SEEDS OF PEACE' PRIZE

19990611 Following is the address of Secretary-General Kofi Annan upon receiving the 1999 Seeds of Peace Prize in New York on 10 June:

11 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7028

SECRETARY-GENERAL AWARE OF DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS CURRENTLY UNDERWAY CONCERNING HIS MISSION OF GOOD OFFICES IN CYPRUS

19990611

Kofi Annan Studying Joint Statement of G-8 Foreign Ministers In Preparation of Summit Meeting to Be Held Next Week in Cologne

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

11 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7029

SECRETARY-GENERAL LAUDS OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS PROSECUTOR

19990611 The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Government of Canada yesterday announced the appointment of Louise Arbour to the Supreme Court of Canada.

11 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7026
SOC/NAR/802

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS AND CROSS-BORDER NATURE OF DRUG ABUSE AND ILLICIT TRAFFICKING MAKE UN MOST SUITABLE FOR WAGING WAR AGAINST THEM

19990611 Following is the text of the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the occasion of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, to be observed on 26 June:

10 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7023
SC/6687

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN COUNCIL MEETING ON KOSOVO, SAYS UN IS DETERMINED TO LEAD CIVILIAN IMPLEMENTATION OF PEACE EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY

19990610 Kofi Annan Says Resolution Gives Strong Legal Underpinning to Task Ahead; 'But Let us Not Be Triumphalist, for that Task is Indeed Daunting'

Following is the text of the statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Security Council resolution on Kosovo adopted today:

8 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7021
OBV/98

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM WILL NOT LAG BEHIND IN SEARCH FOR CONCRETE SOLUTIONS TO DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT

19990608

Following is the text of a message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the occasion of World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, which will be observed on 17 June:

8 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7022

SECRETARY-GENERAL, ADDRESSING UNITED STATES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, HIGHLIGHTS FUNDAMENTAL SHIFT OF UNITED NATIONS ATTITUDE TOWARDS PRIVATE SECTOR

19990608 Kofi Annan Says Business Community and United Nations Are Engaged In 'Something Larger than Ourselves': Human Security in Broadest Sense

Following is the text of the address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the United States Chamber of Commerce, in Washington, D.C., today:

7 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7020
AFR/147

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN AT DETERIORATING HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN ANGOLA

19990607 The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

4 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7019
AFR/146

SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA FOR EXEMPLARY MANNER IN WHICH SECOND DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS CONDUCTED

19990604 The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

4 June 1999

Press Release
SG/SM/7018

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES NEWS OF BREAKTHROUGH AGREEMENT REACHED YESTERDAY IN BELGRADE

19990604 Following is the text of a statement attributable to Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

I welcome the news of the breakthrough agreement reached in Belgrade yesterday. My warmest congratulations go to President Martti Ahtisaari and Special Envoy Victor Chernomyrdin on their achievement.