UNITED NATIONS, United States: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday (Friday in Manila) apologized for the first time to the people of Haiti for the role played by the world body’s peacekeepers in sparking a devastating cholera epidemic in the country.
“On behalf of the United Nations, I want to say very clearly we apologize to the Haitian people,” he said three times -- in Haitian Creole, French and English -- to the UN General Assembly.
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