UN / MASS FOR HAITI

United Nations Secretary-General joins UN staff and other officials in mass at the Holy Family Church in New York to commemorate those who had died in Haiti following the devastating earthquake on Tuesday 12 January. UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:53
• Production Date: 20 January 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE
• MAMS Id: U100120g

Description

STORY: UN / MASS FOR HAITI
TRT: 2.53
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 20 JANUARY 2010, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

1. Zoom in, Holy Family Church
2. Zoom in, embelm at entrance of church
3. Tilt up, to church icon
4. Wide shot, people entering church
5. Med shot, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Mrs. Ban Soon-taek entering church
6. Zoom out, organ player to congergation
7. Med, Secretary-General and Mrs. Ban
8. Wide shot, Archbishop Celestino Migliore bows at alter
9. Cutaway, audiance
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Celestino Migliore, Archbishop, Holay Family Church”
The shock when we first heard of the catastrophy, it did not prepare us for the continuous saga of this disaster, so many lives lost and people displaced and at the same time with us the enormous outpouring of assistance
11. Cutaway, choir singing
12. Cutaway, audience
13. Tracking shot, Secretary-General approaching podium
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"Haiti has lost tens of thousands, of its people. Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their homes. Yet Haitians have proven their resilience many times. They are showing that same, extraordinary resilience and sense of solidarity today."
15. Cutaway, audience
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"For the UN, it is the gravest single loss in the history of the Organization. Nearly 50 of our colleagues have lost their lives and still many are not accounted for. Yet, the United Nations is carrying out its work. We know that the dearest wish of our fallen colleagues is for the United Nations to carry forward the noble mission they have left for us to finish."
17. Various shots, end of mass

Storyline

United Nations Secretary-General joined UN staff and other officials today in mass at the Holy Family Chruch in New York to commemorate those who died in Haiti following the devastating earthquake on Tuesday 12 January.

Friends and family of those who died were present at the ceremony where Archbishop Celestino Migliore offered the religious service.

Migliore said that the shock when we first heard of the catastrophy did not prepare us for the continuous saga of this disaster and the enormous outpouring of assistance.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon honored the Haitian people who died in the catastrophe, he said Haiti had lost tens of thousands, of its people, and that hundreds of thousands of people had lost their homes. Yet, he said, Haitians had proven their resilience many times, and that they were showing that same, “extraordinary resilience and sense of solidarity today."

Remembering those U.N. staff who died, Ban said that for the U.N it was the gravest single loss in the history of the Organization. Ban said that “we know that the dearest wish of our fallen colleagues is for the United Nations to carry forward the noble mission they have left for us to finish."