SWITZERLAND: BODY OF UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL ENVOY TO IRAQ SERGIO VIEIRA DE MELLO ARRIVES IN GENEVA AHEAD OF HIS BURIAL IN FRANCE

Record ID: 338282

  • Title: SWITZERLAND: BODY OF UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL ENVOY TO IRAQ SERGIO VIEIRA DE MELLO ARRIVES IN GENEVA AHEAD OF HIS BURIAL IN FRANCE
  • Date: 25th August 2003
  • Summary: (U3) GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (AUGUST 25, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. SV: UNITED NATIONS DELEGATION LEAVING BUILDING AND STEPPING OUT ONTO AIRPORT TARMAC 0.11 2. VARIOUS OF U.N. DELEGATION STANDING OUTSIDE ON TARMAC (3 SHOTS) 0.46 3. MV: AIRPLANE ARRIVING / TAXING ON RUNWAY 1.10 4. CLOSE-UP OF AIRPLANE / SIGN ON PLANE READING: "FORCA AEREA BRASILEIRA" 1.17 5. ZOOM OUT: U.N. DELEGATION WALKING TOWARD AIRPLANE 1.38 6. VARIOUS OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL ENVOY TO IRAQ, SERGIO VIEIRA DE MELLO, DISEMBARKING PLANE; DE MELLO'S FAMILY BEING GREETED BY U.N. DELEGATION 2.19 7. WIDE VIEW OF PLANE ON TARMAC 2.33 8. CLOSE-UP OF TAIL OF PLANE 2.40 9. MV: WHITE VAN, CARRYING DE MELLO'S BODY, DRIVING ALONG TARMAC 2.56 10. VARIOUS OF DE MELLO'S FAMILY AND U.N. DELEGATION STANDING NEAR VAN 3.29 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 9th September 2003 13:00
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  • Location: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
  • Country: Switzerland
  • Reuters ID: LVAAOTLKDGMD8QI0T816Z79I3LO
  • Story Text: United Nations envoy's body arrives in Geneva.


    The body of the United Nations special envoy to
    Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, arrived in Geneva on Monday
    (August 25, 2003) ahead of his burial in France.

    The 55-year-old Vieira de Mello was trapped under
    rubble on Tuesday (August 19) and died after a suspected
    suicide bomb blast in Baghdad.

    The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights since
    September, Vieira de Mello was the immediate choice of
    Secretary-General Kofi Annan to take on the Iraqi job in
    May after the controversial U.S.-British invasion to oust
    Saddam Hussein.

    Vieira de Mello, whose film-star looks and natural
    charm had made him one of the U.N.'s most widely-recognised
    officials, insisted his Iraq assignment be for just four
    months so he could hold on to the human rights post in
    Geneva.

    Vieira de Mello was married but separated from his
    wife, and is survived by two sons.



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