Insurgents have fired at the UN Secretary General in Iraq
The insurgents have struck a rocket shell near to a place of carrying out of press conference of the UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon in Iraq. As it has become known, nobody has suffered in result of this incident.
The attack has occurred during Ban Ki-moon’s and Iraq Prime Minister’s conference for journalists near the Prime-Minister’s office in the so-called “green zone”. As the Associated Press, referring to present on a place of events of own correspondent, informs, Ban Ki-moon has had time to be covered behind a tribune.
The Iraqi Prime minister has declared, that “nothing terrible has happened”, and press conference has been again proceeded in some minutes.
As it was formed later, a rocket shell in 1 meter diameter and 50 meters from a building, where the conference has been held, has occurred.
What really warns is that the building of the American embassy and a number of offices of the Iraq government are also settled down near to a place of incident.
It is worth of mentioning that Ban Ki-moon is now making his second large foreign trip as the Secretary General. The United Nations chief has chosen the Near East, because, as he said, “the situation with safety in this region is one of the most important for today of the international questions “.
In the end of March 2007, Ban Ki-moon is to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories with the purpose of affording the renewal of the Palestine-Israeli peace process.
Meanwhile today it was not the first incident, connected with an attack on employees of the United Nations Organization. Earlier, the four armed Palestinians in masks have grasped the United Nations’ car in Gaza. The driver has not suffered.
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