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Pakistan: Ban condemns killing of UNHCR staff member

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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics

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United Nations, New York, 16 July 2009  Secretary-General General Ban Ki-moon has led a chorus of condemnation over the shooting death of a staff member of the United Nations refugee agency at a camp outside the north-west Pakistani town of Peshawar today.

The murder of Zill-e Usman, a 59-year-old Pakistani national who had served with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) since 1984, is the third killing of the agencys staff in the country in the past six months. 

Mr. Usman was shot by unidentified gunmen in the Kutcha Gari camp on the border of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Four to five gunmen reportedly opened fire as he was walking back from the camp administrative office to his car during a routine visit to the site.

News story:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=31483&Cr=Pakistan&Cr1=UNHCR

Statement Attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on the killing of UN staff member in Pakistan:
http://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp?nid=3977

Statement Attributable to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres:
http://www.unhcr.org/4a5f00fa6.html

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