Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary General Marie Okabe Holds Office of the Spokesman for the U.N. Secretary General Regular News Briefing
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Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary General Marie Okabe Holds Office of the Spokesman for the U.N. Secretary General Regular News Briefing
OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL REGULAR NEWS BRIEFING, AS RELEASED BY THE U.N.
MAY 22, 2008SPEAKER: DEPUTY SPOKESPERSON FOR THE U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL MARIE OKABE[*] OKABE: Good afternoon. Our guest today will be Ian Martin, Special Representative in Nepal. He just briefed the Security Council and he should be here at 12:30 p.m., so I will try to zip through this briefing.As you have all seen and read, the Secretary-General arrived in Yangon, Myanmar, today and was flown by military helicopter over the heavily devastated Irrawaddy Delta. The tour that lasted four hours included two stops, one at a makeshift relief camp, where he met survivors of the village of Kyondah. There, he told one of the families, "The whole world is trying to help Myanmar." The other stop was at a distribution center stocked with dozens of bags of rice and cartons of sealed bottles of drinking water.In a meeting earlier with Prime Minister Thein Sein, Ban stressed that foreign aid experts...See the full content of this document
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