HAITI: Ban Ki-Moon meets with Preval and UN worker pulled alive from rubble of UN building

Record ID: 561242

  • 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) (SOUNDBITE) (English) PRESIDENT OF HAITI RENE PREVAL SAYING: "It's important to coordinate MINUSTAH (UN offices in Haiti) is willing to do so and this is a very important meeting and we were with the Vice President of the European Union, the Vice President of Spain. Spain is important and the minister is important. The Americans are important. We need to coordinate badly. It's urgent." REPORTER ASKS HIM OFF CAMERA: "What is your message to people of the world?" PREVAL SAYING: "Thank you very much for your help. So, thank you for the solidarity." +++QUALITY AS INCOMING VIA SATPHONE+++ VARIOUS OF BAN AT SITE OF DEMOLISHED UN HEADQUARTERS LOOKING AT DEVASTATION AND MEETING RESCUE WORKERS VARIOUS OF RESCUE WORKERS PULLING JEN CHRISTANSEN, DANISH UN WORKER ALIVE OUT OF THE RUBBLE AND TAKING HIM AWAY ON A STRETCHER
  • Embargoed: 2nd February 2010 12:00
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  • Location: Haiti
  • Country: Haiti
  • Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes
  • Reuters ID: LVA5IN1GX3R0JIO6D12B8O27NV90
  • 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.
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