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ALGIERS / MEMORIAL

A memorial marking the second anniversary of the deadly terrorist attack in Algiers which claimed the lives of 17 and injured 40 staff members takes place at UN headquarters. UNTV

Duration:01:52Date:11 December 2009

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United Nations Television, CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE, ALGERIA

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STORY:  UN / ALGIERS MEMORIAL 
TRT: 1.52
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 11 DECEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY

SHOTLIST:

RECENT 2009, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

11 DECEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Ban Ki-moon arrives
3. Cutaway, torn Flag from the Iraq bombing
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Our colleagues who died were working on the full spectrum of UN issues, from food security to human rights and industrial development. In every case, they were devoted to helping the people of Algeria to build better lives for themselves and their children. I salute them, as well as those who are continuing their work with dedication and professionalism.”
5. Cutaway, torn Flag from the Iraq bombing
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The United Nations is now a target of terrorist groups. We are still considering all the implications of this fact. This is rightfully a cause of great concern to all United Nations staff. I am working with the Department of Safety and Security and with Member States to ensure that you have the safest conditions possible in which to live and to carry out your important work."
7. Wide shot, Ban greets guests and departs

STORYLINE:

United Nations staff members gathered today to pay tribute to the 17 colleagues killed two years ago in a terrorist attack at the world body’s offices in the Algerian capital.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at UN Headquarters in New York, having earlier told staff that the attack in Algiers on 11 December 2007, “has caused suffering and grief that will never go away.”

Seventeen staff were killed and forty others were injured when a car bomb destroyed the offices of the UN Development Program ( UNDP ) and damaged those of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Just twenty minutes before that attack, terrorists also struck the Algerian Constitutional Court, killing at least 14 people there.

The colleagues who died were working on the full spectrum of UN issues, Ban said, adding that in every case, they were devoted to helping the people of Algeria build better lives for themselves and their children. "I salute them, as well as those who are continuing their work with dedication and professionalism.”

The Secretary-General said the Algiers bombing, as well as the Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad in 2003 and this year’s attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan, underlined that the UN was now a target of terrorist groups.

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