UN Secretary-General visits Haiti to support relief efforts, rescue of survivors
By APSunday, January 17, 2010
UN’s Ban visits Haiti to support relief efforts
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has arrived in Haiti to support relief efforts in the earthquake-hit nation.
Ban arrived Sunday on a charter Boeing 737 and was met by the acting chief of the U.N. peacekeeping mission, Edmond Mulet.
His first stop is going to be the five-story U.N. headquarters that collapsed in the quake, burying U.N. mission chief Hedi Annabi and many others. Annabi’s body was found Saturday.
Ban also will take an aerial tour of the country’s most-damaged areas.
The secretary-general says he is “very touched and grateful” for the outpouring of international aid to help Haiti and that donors “should not waste even a single item, a dollar.”
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