SRI LANKA: UN SECRETARY GENERAL KOFIN ANNAN ARRIVES IN COLOMBO TO SEE TSUNAMI DEVASTATION

Record ID: 222816

  • Title: SRI LANKA: UN SECRETARY GENERAL KOFIN ANNAN ARRIVES IN COLOMBO TO SEE TSUNAMI DEVASTATION
  • Date: 7th January 2005
  • Summary: (W5) COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (JANUARY 7, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL KOFI ANNAN DESCENDING STEPS OF AIRCRAFT 0.11 2. WIDE OF ANNAN AND HIS WIFE, NAN, GREETING DIGNITARIES AND OFFICIALS, WALKING 0.41 3. WIDE OF ANNAN SIGNING V.I.P. VISITOR'S BOOK AND THEN WALKING AWAY NEAR CANOPY 1.04 4. WIDE OF UNITED NATIONS AND SRI LANKA FLAGS 1.10 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd January 2005 12:00
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  • Location: COLOMBO, SRI LANKA
  • Country: Sri Lanka
  • Reuters ID: LVABH9KL74XRWPDQP7DR9UOLXY9Z
  • Story Text: United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan arrives
    in Sri Lanka.




    United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan
    continued his tour of the devastated Indian Ocean regions
    on Friday (January 7), arriving in Sri Lanka. He follows
    U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.

    Annan arrived directly from Indonesia, where he saw the
    massive destruction caused by the December 26 tsunami in
    the Aceh province.

    After flying by helicopter to the razed town of
    Meulaboh, beyond which is a black hole of devastation,
    Annan told reporters the damage was beyond anything he had
    ever seen.

    Colin Powell on Friday briefly visited Sri Lanka, where
    the tsunami killed more than 30,000.



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