HAITI: Ban Ki-Moon meets with Preval and UN worker pulled alive from rubble of UN building
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HAITI: Ban Ki-Moon meets with Preval and UN worker pulled alive from rubble of UN building
- Title: HAITI: Ban Ki-Moon meets with Preval and UN worker pulled alive from rubble of UN building
- Date: 18th January 2010
- Summary: PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (JANUARY 17, 2010) (REUTERS) BAN AND PREVAL SHAKE HANDS AT DOORWAY AFTER THEIR MEETING
- Embargoed: 2nd February 2010 12:00
- Keywords:
- Location: Haiti
- Country: Haiti
- Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes
- Reuters ID: LVA4RL2PN3YP3GCY423ARBOJCK0X
- Story Text: U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon travelled to Haiti to meet President Rene Preval on Sunday (January 17) - pledging continued support from the United Nations for the beleaguered country.
President Rene Preval met with Ban and thanked the world community for its support.
"It's important to coordinate, MINUSTAH (UN offices in Haiti) is willing to do so and this is a very important meeting," said Preval. "We need to coordinate badly. It's urgent."
World leaders pledged massive aid programs to rebuild Haiti, but desperate earthquake survivors were still waiting on Sunday for food, water and medicine.
Five days after a 7.0 magnitude quake killed possibly up to 200,000 people, international rescue teams clawed away at the rubble of collapsed buildings in the wrecked capital, Port-au-Prince, in a race against time to find more survivors.
After his meeting with Preval, Ban visited the site of the completely demolished UN headquarters.
Just minutes after he was driven away, rescue workers at the site pulled Danish UN worker, Jens Christansen, alive from the rubble to the applause of onlookers. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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