NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–16 January 2010 –
The acting top United Nations envoy to Haiti called Tuesday’s catastrophic earthquake “a great tragedy,” as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon prepares to visit the impoverished Caribbean nation tomorrow.
With the top UN official in Haiti, Hédi Annabi, still unaccounted for, Mr. Ban dispatched Edmond Mulet, his former Special Representative to Haiti and current Assistant-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, to the country to assume full command of the UN Stabilization Mission (
