UN chief arrives in Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh
7/1/2005 15:08
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan arrived in Indonesian Aceh
province on Friday for a tour to the hardest tsunami-hit Maulaboh district in
the province. Annan touched down at 9:45 (local time) in the capital of Aceh
Province, Banda Aceh.After his arrival at the airport, he went straight to the
airport terminal, where he was greeted by Indonesian Welfare and Poverty
Alleviation Minister Alwi Shihab. The UN secretary general is to see
destruction from tsunami in Maulaboh district and then the devastated city of
Banda Aceh. Last Sunday's catastrophe killed at least 146,000 people along
the Indian Ocean, more than a half in Indonesia.
Xinhua
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