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6 April 2011

At headquarters and across the globe, UN staff today mourned the loss of at least 40 colleagues who perished in the line of duty over the past week.
UNTV / UNMIS / UNAMID / RECENT

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STORY: UN / FALLEN STAFF WRAP
TRT: 2.35
SOURCE: UNTV/ UNMIS / UNAMA / MONUSCO / UNAMID
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 6 APRIL 2011, NEW YORK CITY, KHARTOUM SUDAN / RECENT

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UNTV – 6 APRIL 2011, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, UN flag at half mast
2. Med shot, UN staff gathered at ceremony
3. Med shot, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arriving at ceremony
4. Various shots, wreath-lying ceremony
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“So far this year, still so young, we have lost at least 40 members of our United Nations family. In some missions, the cause was accident or natural disaster. Elsewhere it was murder, cold-blooded and brutal.”
6. Cutaway, wreath
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“As an Organization, we are asked to take on greater and greater responsibility, at greater and greater risk. In light of these evolving realities, I have instructed our senior managers to undertake an immediate review of our personal security needs and policies. I will take the findings to the General Assembly and insist that those requirements be met.”
8. Various shots, moment of silence

6 APRIL 2011, KHARTOUM, SUDAN

9. Various shots, UN mission headquarters moment of silence for victims, flag half staff

RECENT - 2 APRIL 2011, KABUL, AFGHANISTAN

10. Pan right, de Mistura approaches the plane
11. Med shot, crowd waiting on the tarmac
12. Med shot, de Mistura next to UN flag covered caskets of Mazar-e-Sharif victims

RECENT - 5 APRIL 2011, N’DJILI AIRPORT, KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

13. Various shots, remnants of UN plane wreckage

UNAMID – 6 APRIL 2011, DARFUR

14. Wide, peacekeepers carrying the body of the fallen colleague in a coffin.
15. Med shot, peacekeepers in tears
16. Med shot, coffin
18. Med shot, UNAMID Force Commander, Patrick Nyamvumba laying wreath and saluting

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United Nations staff led by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today mourned the loss of at least 42 colleagues who perished in the line of duty over the past week, with a wreath-laying ceremony at the world body’s headquarters in New York.

Across the world, UN offices joined in remembering those who died while serving the organization. At the UN mission in Sudan, the UN flag was lowered to half staff.

Since last Wednesday, the UN has lost staff in Haiti, Côte d’Ivoire, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Darfur region of Sudan.
On 30 March, Captain Sultan Al Shraah of Jordan, a member of the police contingent of the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), was killed on patrol in Port-au-Prince.

The next day, Zahra Abidi of Sweden died after being hit by a stray bullet in Abidjan, the strife-torn commercial capital of Côte d’Ivoire. She was an information analyst with the UN mission in the West African nation, known as UNOCI.

Last Friday, three international staff and four international security guards serving with the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) were slain in Mazar-i-Sharif when a crowd of around 3,000 people protesting against the burning of a Koran in the United States attacked the UN offices in the northern city.

The three staff members killed - Joakim Dungel, a human rights officer from Sweden, Filaret Motco, a political affairs officer from Romania and Lieutenant Colonel Siri Skare, a military adviser from Norway.

And four Nepalese Gurkhas guarding the UN centre - Dil Prasad Gurung, Chhabi Lal Purja Pun, Narayan Bahadur Thapa Magar and Min Bahadur Thapa.

Then on Monday, a UN aircraft – carrying both UN and non-UN personnel – crashed on landing in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, killing 32 people on board. One passenger survived the crash and remains in hospital, according to the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC (MONUSCO).

And just yesterday, the joint UN-African Union mission in Darfur (UNAMID) reported that one of its peacekeepers was killed after being abducted by armed men in the north of the war-wracked Sudanese region.

In the wake of these recent tragedies, Ban has instructed his senior managers to undertake an immediate review of security needs and policies.

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