SG/SM/12720
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the Follow-up Conference on the International Year of Sanitation, in Tokyo from 26‑27 January:
On Tuesday, 12 January 2010, at 4:53 p.m., an earthquake struck Haiti, killing tens of thousands of Haitians and causing the highest number of casualties among United Nations staff in any single event in the Organization’s history.