Question:  One piece of the question is:  I wonder what the UN is doing about the people who did survive or who have lost people, or are injured.  Is there a programme to be helpful to them and what does it include?  If you can give us a briefing, maybe, on this.  And then another piece of the question is:  I guess I read that the UNDP building basically, most of it didn’t survive the earthquake, but one area collapsed, and the people were recovered who were in that. I wondered if we could hear a little more about the situation in the different places; and if the UN is looking into what the conditions were of its buildings, and will there be an investigation of this to try to understand what lessons can be learned towards having more people survive in the future? Spokesperson:  Well, I think all of those questions could easily have been put to Kim while she was on the video link; and I didn’t see your hand up at that point.  I did not see your hand up.  So, these are all questions that could directly go to Kim, I think.  And so, I’m not going to answer them now.

seen at 12:00, 8 February in Spokesman for the UN Secretary General. Email this to a friend.
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