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Top UN official to visit Srebrenica on 10th anniversary of massacre

Top UN official to visit Srebrenica on 10th anniversary of massacre

As part of the United Nations commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the fall of Srebrenica, Mark Malloch Brown, Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Chief of Staff, next week will head to the town that was the site of a massacre of Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces after they took over the town designated by the Security Council as a "safe area."

Mr. Malloch Brown will arrive in Srebrenica on 11 July, to attend a ceremony where he will deliver a message on behalf of the Secretary-General.

Ahead of that solemn occasion, the Department of UN Peacekeeping Operations will host a discussion from 12:30 to 2pm in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, tomorrow in New York. Panellists will include, amongst others, Ambassador Diego Arria, former Venezuelan Ambassador to the UN, H.R.H. Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein of Jordan, and Professor Samantha Power of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy of Harvard University.