Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today honoured the 17 United Nations staff members who lost their lives in last month’s terrorist attack in Algeria, telling a memorial ceremony in Geneva that their deaths were a “savage loss.”
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned yesterday’s bombing in the Lebanese capital of Beirut which reportedly claimed the lives of at least three civilians and wounded at least 20 others.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced his decision to appoint an independent panel to investigate last month’s deadly terrorist attack in Algeria which claimed the lives of 17 United Nations staff members.
The top United Nations security official today submitted to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon a report on last December’s deadly terrorist attack in Algiers which claimed the lives of 17 – and injured 40 – of the world body’s staff.