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Annan urges Pacific region countries to keep working with UN to prevent conflict

18 August 2003
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged island countries in the Pacific region to continue collaborating with the world body, particularly in preventing conflict, and cited the crisis in the Solomon Islands as a "challenge of immediate concern."

UN forum to examine how to address human rights concerns of globalization

24 July 2002
Representatives of governments and civil society are set to examine how to create a dialogue within the United Nations human rights system over concerns about globalization.

Globalization ‘best hope’ to cure world’s problems, Annan tells World Economic Forum

4 February 2002
Rather than being the cause of poverty and other social ills, globalization offered the best hope of overcoming such problems, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the World Economic Forum in New York today as he urged business leaders to do more to ensure that all the world’s people benefit from the phenomenon.

Annan to address Global Employment Forum in Geneva next week

26 October 2001
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will head to Geneva next week to address the Global Employment Forum, a conference on creating decent work in the 21st century sponsored by the International Labour Organization (ILO), Mr. Annan's spokesman announced today.