tsunami

Deputy UN envoy for tsunami recovery deplores rising bloodshed in Sri Lanka

29 September 2006
The United Nations’ Deputy Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery today added his voice to the chorus of alarm at reports that more than 200 civilians had been killed and thousands more displaced during the past two months in fresh fighting between Government forces and Tamil rebels in Sri Lanka.
Special Envoy Bill Clinton

UN tsunami envoy Bill Clinton welcomes political reform progress in the Maldives

28 September 2006
The Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, former United States President Bill Clinton, today welcomed the release of an opposition leader in the Maldives and the commitment by the archipelago’s Government to undertake further political reform as it rebuilds in the wake of the disaster.