- Title: HAITI: U.N. Secretary-General attends ceremony for U.N. dead
- Date: 18th January 2010
- Summary: PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (JANUARY 17, 2010) (REUTERS) UN SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON WALKING TO THE CEREMONY UN SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN-KI MOON AT THE CEREMONY MILITARY PERSONNEL CARRYING THE COFFINS OF TOP UN OFFICIALS BRAZILIAN MILITARY PERSONNEL SETTING DOWN THE COFFIN BAN-KI MOON AT THE CEREMONY BAN-KI MOON AND OTHER UN PERSONNEL AT THE CEREMONY BAN-KI MOON BOWING TO THE COFFINS SOLDIERS FOLDING A UNITED NATIONS FLAG THAT COVERED ONE OF THE COFFINS' SOLDIER HANDING OVER A FOLDED UN FLAG TO BAN-KI MOON CLOSE-UP OF BRAZILIAN FLAG ON THE SHOULDER OF A SOLDIER A PERUVIAN SOLDIER OF THE UNITED NATIONS FORCE IN HAITI SALUTING THE COFFINS SOLDIER SALUTING THE COFFINS AS THEY ARE TAKEN FROM THE CEREMONY SOLDIERS CARRYING THE COFFINS LEAVING THE CEREMONY
- Embargoed: 2nd February 2010 12:00
- Keywords:
- Location: Haiti
- Country: Haiti
- Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes
- Reuters ID: LVA30CLYCMOIBAW8B3600FVE1SV2
- Story Text: U.N. Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon attended a ceremony on Sunday (January 17) for those who died at the U.N. mission in Haiti during this week's devastating earthquake.
The coffins of some of the dead were at the ceremony. One of them was that of Brazilian Luiz Carlos da Costa, deputy to the mission chief in Haiti, Hedi Annabi. Annabi also perished in the earthquake.
The ceremony was attended by military personnel of several nations which are contributors to MINUSTAH, the U.N. Stabilization Mission in Haiti.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on Saturday that the U.N. mission chief in Haiti, Hedi Annabi had died in Tuesday's earthquake that devastated the country's capita along with da Costa and acting U.N. police commissioner in Haiti, Doug Coates of Canada.
Annabi, a Tunisian, was believed to be 65.
Annabi is the first U.N. mission chief to die in the line of duty since Sergio Vieira de Mello of Brazil was killed along with 14 other U.N. staff when a truck bomb exploded outside the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad in 2003.
At the ceremony in Port-Au-Prince, U.N. flags were draped over the coffins of the two men, after which they were folded and handed over to Ban-Ki Moon.
After working in the Tunisian foreign service, Annabi joined the United Nations in 1981. For nearly a decade, he worked on a political settlement in Cambodia before joining the U.N. peacekeeping department where he rose to be an assistant secretary-general. He had held the Haiti job since 2007.
By Friday, the U.N. death toll in Haiti had stood at 37. The deaths announced by Ban raise that to at least 40, but U.N. officials expect it ultimately to rise well over 100. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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