WORLDWIDE SILENT MARCH HONOURS UN STAFF KILLED IN BAGHDAD

(August 26, 2003)

All duty stations of the United Nations have organized silent marches to be held on the same day, today. This is to honour the memory of friends and colleagues killed at UN Headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, on August 19th. The march is to protest the attack on the United Nations, and to highlight the ened to enhance security measures in the field where UN staff work.

UN staff marching around the New York Headquarters fountain today to express their profound distress over the senseless bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad on August 19. (UN Photo #UNE3734 by Sophie Paris)

United Nations staff members in the silent march held today at UN Headquarters. (UN Photo #UNE3739 by Mark Garten)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (centre) walking with staff members at today's march at UN Headquarters in New York. (UN Photo #UNE3740 by Eskinder Debebe)

Staff members marching to honor their colleagues killed and injured in last week's bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq. (UN Photo #UNE3736 by Mark Garten)


 

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