INDONESIA: UNITED NATION SECRETARY GENERAL KOFI ANNAN ARRIVES IN BANDA ACEH

Record ID: 222940

  • Title: INDONESIA: UNITED NATION SECRETARY GENERAL KOFI ANNAN ARRIVES IN BANDA ACEH
  • Date: 7th January 2005
  • Summary: (W2) BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA (JANUARY 7, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS: OF PLANE CARRYING U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL KOFI ANNAN TAXIING ON TARMAC. 0.20 2. MV: PLANE DOOR OPENS. 0.27 3. SCU: GUARD. 0.31 4. VARIOUS: OF ANNAN GETTING OFF PLANE/GREETING PEOPLE. (3 SHOTS) 1.01 5. VARIOUS: OF ANNAN WALKING FROM PLANE. 1.30 6. MV: MEDIA WAITING. 1.37 7. VARIOUS: ANNAN WALKS THROUGH MEDIA. 1.48 8. VARIOUS: OF ANNAN WALKING TO HELICOPTER AND HELICOPTER TAXIING. (23 SHOTS) 2.06 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd January 2005 12:00
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  • Location: BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Reuters ID: LVACQTDNAGDKDA19RVYNMKQEY48D
  • Story Text: United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan arrives
    in tsunami striken Banda Aceh.



    A day after a crisis aid summit in the Indonesia
    capital, Jakarta, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the
    head of the World Bank James Wolfensohn on Friday (January
    7) visited the capital of hardest-hit Aceh province, where
    nearly 100,000 people are known to have died and more than
    half a million are homeless.

    The world's largest peace-time relief effort zeroed in
    on remote northern areas of Indonesia's Sumatra island
    where possibly hundreds of thousands of tsunami survivors
    have yet to receive aid.

    As many as a million people may have lived in the area
    before it was struck by the December 26 earthquake and
    tsunami according to the U.N. Emergency Relief.

    But cut off by roads and communications, many survivors
    are thought to have taken shelter in the heavily forested
    interior and the true scope of the disaster was yet to be
    revealed.

    With the aid effort gathering pace in Indian Ocean rim
    nations battered by the tsunami, Annan urged the world on
    Thursday (January 6) to quickly send nearly 1 billion U.S.

    dollars (USD) to meet the basic needs of an estimated five
    million people affected by the crisis.

    More than 4 billion USD has been pledged from
    governments, corporations and ordinary people in an
    unprecedented global response.





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