U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will be the keynote speaker at a terrorism conference for current and former world leaders next month in Madrid, a spokesman for the Club de Madrid confirmed Tuesday. The conference will be held March 8-10, the dates chosen to commemorate the anniversary of the March 11 train bombing in Madrid last year that killed 191 people and injured more than 1,500. Annan will speak March 10, and «he's going to make a major statement here,» said Christer Elfverson, a United Nations diplomat working temporarily for the club of about 55 former world leaders. On Sunday in Munich, Germany, Annan appealed for Europe and the United States to overhaul global security measures to combat terrorism, quell regional conflicts and curtail the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Citing security concerns, Elfverson declined to identify other world leaders who had confirmed they would attend, but said the list «absolutely» includes current as well as former leaders. «We know of quite a few who will be here,» he said. --mor 1446 Local Time 1146 GMT