SG/SM/12797
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Fifth Session of the World Urban Forum, to be held in Rio de Janeiro from 22 to 26 March:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled to Haiti on 14 March 2010. During the one-day visit, he sought to assess conditions on the ground two months after an earthquake levelled much of the capital Port-au-Prince, killing hundreds of thousands of people, including 101 United Nations staff members.