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19 August 2008
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UN in Geneva Remembers Twenty-Two Staffmembers Killed Five years Ago in Baghdad Bombing
19/08/2008
In a solemn ceremony the United Nations in New York and in Geneva remembered those who were killed in the bombing of the UN office in Baghdad. The truck bomb attack took the lives of 22, including the top UN envoy in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, and wounded more than 150. Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General of the UN Office in Geneva says those killed will never be forgotten.
Gail Walker reports
The full speech is below
