Secretary-General Briefed on Flood Evacuation in Bangkok
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (front row, second from left) listens to a briefing on flood evacuation procedures at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. The university’s sports complex is housing more than four hundred evacuees as monsoon floods continue to inundate the Thai capital and many other parts of the country.
Mr. Ban is flanked by Noeleen Heyzer (left), Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), and his wife, Yoo Soon-taek.