Question: Yes, I was wondering, the same question that Neil asked regarding UN staff in Haiti, if you have any update? And also if you can tell use how many people died in the Christopher Hotel, and the numbers that you have? I just want to make sure -- are they international staff or it’s international and local staff? Spokesperson: Right. The latest figures -- and I will check when I get out of this briefing in case there has been any further update in the last few hours. But the latest figures that I have are 94 confirmed deaths. That includes four contractors; in other words, not staff members, but people who were working on UN business. And there are eight people who are unaccounted for, and two of them, likewise, are contractors. Now, the breakdown of national and international, I will provide later. But those figures that I have cited are the combined total for international and national staff for the mission for MINUSTAH and for other people working for the broader UN system in Haiti at that time. [He later said that the deaths included 76 international personnel and 18 national personnel, while unaccounted for personnel included two internationals and six nationals.]
And as to your question about how many people perished in the Christopher Hotel, we’ll try to find that out for you. That, you cannot read from figures that I have.
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