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WCC condemns bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad

"Deeply shocked by the horrific terrorist attack on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad," the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, Rev. Dr Konrad Raiser, sent a letter today to the United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan. Raiser strongly condemns "such unwarranted and unlawful acts that serve no acceptable purpose". He also mourns "the loss of lives of the UN personnel who were in Baghdad to serve the humanitarian needs of the people and work for restoration of the sovereignty of the people of Iraq", and particularly "the untimely death of Mr Sergio Vieira de Mello", who was "an old friend of the World Council of Churches".

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20 August 2003

"Deeply shocked by the horrific terrorist attack on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad," the general secretary of the World Council of Churches, Rev. Dr Konrad Raiser, sent a letter today to the United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan. Raiser strongly condemns "such unwarranted and unlawful acts that serve no acceptable purpose". He also mourns "the loss of lives of the UN personnel who were in Baghdad to serve the humanitarian needs of the people and work for restoration of the sovereignty of the people of Iraq", and particularly "the untimely death of Mr Sergio Vieira de Mello", who was "an old friend of the World Council of Churches".

Full text of the letter will shortly be available at:

www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/international/baghdadbombing.html