Statements and Messages

22 June 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6607
AFR/78

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES AGREEMENT ON SUSPENSION OF HOSTILITIES IN BURUNDI

19980622 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:

19 June 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6603

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES EFFORTS BY PRESIDENT YELTSIN AND OTHERS TO BRING ABOUT DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION TO CONFLICT IN KOSOVO

19980619 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:

19 June 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6604
SOC/NAR/785

19 June 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6605

SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES APPEAL TO ALL PARTIES TO ABSTAIN FROM ACTION THAT ADDS TO TENSION IN CYPRUS

19980619 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

18 June 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6601

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS JEAN-PIERRE RITTER, OF SWITZERLAND, AS NEW THIRD MEMBER OF COMMITTEE ON MISSING PERSONS IN CYPRUS

19980618 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:

18 June 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6602
WOM/1052

SECRETARY-GENERAL HOPES FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION 'WILL BE BUT A MEMORY', PROMISES TO ENSURE ISSUE REMAINS ON INTERNATIONAL AGENDA

19980618 Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's statement at the opening of the meeting on "Culture, Education and Female Circumcision", delivered on his behalf by his Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, Angela King, on Monday, 15 June:

16 June 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6599
AFR/74

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS IN NIGERIA

19980616 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:

16 June 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6600
OBV/48

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR EFFORTS TO BREAK CYCLE OF POVERTY, LAND DEGRADATION IN MESSAGE ON DAY TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION

19980616 ADVANCE RELEASE Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's message on the occasion of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, 17 June:

15 June 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6598

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS LESSONS LEARNED IN BOSNIA MUST BE APPLIED EMPHATICALLY WHERE HORROR THREATENS

19980615 Expressions of Determination To Never Permit Another Bosnia "Will Be Cruelly Mocked If We Allow Kosovo To Become Another Killing-Field"

15 June 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6597
L/2871

UN SECRETARY-GENERAL DECLARES OVERRIDING INTEREST OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT CONFERENCE MUST BE THAT OF VICTIMS AND WORLD COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE

19980615 Opening Five-Week Rome Meeting, He Says Court Must Be Instrument Of Justice, Not Expediency; It Must Save Lives, Serve as Bulwark against Evil

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