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Iraqi and French Foreign Ministers visit UNAMI and pay tribute to UN 19 August 2003 bombing victims

Baghdad-Sunday, 19 August 2007 - The Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, Michael von der Schulenburg and other staff members received on Sunday evening, 19 August 2007 Iraqi Foreign Minister, Hoshiyar Zebari and French Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner at UNAMI headquarters in Baghdad. The two Foreign Ministers and their teams of high level officials visited UNAMI to pay tribute to the 22 who were killed in the bomb attack exactly four years earlier.

Both dignitaries laid wreaths at the memorial at the center of UN compound and emphasized the importance of UN role in assisting Iraq.