Post date: Aug 19, 2013 6:10:40 PM
The deadly 2003 attack on the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad is remembered with a wreath laying and candle lighting ceremony.
UNITED NATIONS (AUGUST 19, 2013) (UNTV) - The United Nations marked the 10th anniversary of the deadly bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad.
On the afternoon of August 19, 2003, a bomb blast at the Canal Hotel, which served as the U.N. center of operations in Baghdad, killed 22 United Nations and aid agency staff.The Secretary-General's Special Representative to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, was among the dead.
Inside the United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday (August 19), U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon laid a wreath to honor the memory of those killed.
Later, Ban led a candle-lighting ceremony during a memorial service.
Together Ban, Acting General Assembly President and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh A.K. Abdul Momen and Security Council President and Permanent Representative of Argentina Maria Cristina Perceval lit a candle to remember their fallen colleagues.