UN / VIGIL

UN staff participate in a candle-light vigil to honor the thousands of victims of the Haiti earthquake today. UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:09
• Production Date: 15 January 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE
• MAMS Id: U100115k

Description

STORY: UN / VIGIL
TRT: 2:09
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 15 JANUARY 2010, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

1. Various shots, UN staff setting up candles for vigil
2. Various shots, people lighting candles at vigil
3. Med shot, head of peacekeeping Alain Le Roy and head of field support Susana Malcorra lighting candles
4. Wide shot, UN headquarters
5. Med shot, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meeting UN’s Haitian staff
6. SOUNDBITE (English) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
“As the mandate of us is to look for all Haitian people, first we are looking to help Haitian people and we are also trying to take care of our dear colleagues. We will do all what we can. Immediate and urgent assistance is flowing in.”
7. Med shot, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meeting UN’s Haitian staff
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Susana Malcorra, Under-Secretary-General for Field Support:
“The mission has been hit at the heart as much as your people have been hit at the heart. And we have a dual hat here. One is to serve your people; the other one is to put the mission on its feet. The country team on its feet so that it can deliver what your people demand.”
9. Med shot, Susana Malcorra meeting UN’s Haitian staff

Storyline

United Nations staff participated in a candle-light vigil to honor the thousands of victims of the Haiti earthquake today. The vigil was held close to the UN headquarters in New York City.

There are as many as 330 UN staff who are still unaccounted for in Haiti. There were about 12,000 staff working for various UN agencies such UN Development Programme (UNDP), UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Food Porgramme (WFP), World Health Organization as well as for the UN peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH).

Alain Leroy, Head of Peacekeeping, and Susana Malcorra, Head of Field Support, were present at vigil.

Earlier today, Ban, Leroy and Malcorra met several Haitian staff working at the UN headquarters. Ban told them that he plans to visit Haiti on this Sunday (17 January) to show his solidarity with the people of Haiti and UN staff, and to assess the humanitarian assistance effort and the scale of the disaster for himself.

He assured the staff that the UN will do all that it can to help the people of Haiti. Speaking after Ban, Malcorra added that the UN has a dual responsibility in this crisis – to serve the Haitian people and get its country team back on its feet to deliver what the Haitian people demand.