"It is essential that the Millennium Summit should provide an opportunity for a moral recommitment to the purposes and principles laid down in the Charter of the United Nations and spur new political momentum for the international cooperation and solidarity that the peoples of the world increasingly demand".

Secretary- General Kofi Annan, Report of the Secretary-General A/53/948

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Press conference by the Secretary-General

5 September 2000: transcript  -   rebroadcast

Reports of the Secretary-General

"We the peoples: the role of the United Nations in the 21st century" [A/54/2000]
Report of the Secretary-General: Thematic framework for the Millennium Summit Report (A/53/948 and Add.1)

Statements and messages of the Secretary-General

Statement to the 24th special session of the General Assembly “World Summit for Social Development and Beyond: Achieving Social Development for All in a Globalizing World”, Geneva (26 June 2000)
Statement to the 23rd special session of the General Assembly “Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-first Century” (5 June 2000)

Address to the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. (25 May 2000)

Message to mark World Telecommunication Day (17 May 2000)

Message to encourage universal participation in multilateral treaty framework during the forthcoming Millennium Summit (17 May 2000)

Address to the University of Yaounde II, Yaounde, Cameroon (2 May 2000)

Address to the World Education Forum, Dakar, Senegal (26 April 2000)

Statement to the 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (24 April 2000)
Address to the special high-level meeting of the Economic and Social Council with the Bretton Woods institutions (18 April 2000)
Address to the South Summit, Havana, Cuba (12 April 2000)

Address at the University of Havana, Havana, Cuba (11 April 2000)

Address to the Italian Parliament, Rome, Italy (5 April 2000)

Message for the new millennium (1 January 2000)

UN Day message (24 October 1999)
Address to the World Children's Parliament (26 October 1999)
Address to the General Assembly (21 September 1998)