Haiti Earthquake: Ban Ki-moon announces the death of Annabi, da Costa and Coates

United Nations, New York, 16 January 2010: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the death of the chief of the United Nations stabilization mission to Haiti, Hédi Annabi, his deputy Luiz Carlos da Costa and Doug Coates of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, killed in the collapse of the U.N. building in Port-au-Prince.

In a statement at headquarters, Ban said he was deeply saddened to confirm the tragic deaths.

Hédi Annabi was a Tunisian diplomat and Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, Head of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). He was previously an Assistant-Secretary-General at the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, from 1997 to 2007.

Luiz Carlos da Costa had a long and distinguished career with the United Nations, most recently having served since September 2005 as Deputy Special Representative for Operations and Rule of Law for the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). Previously, he was the Director of the Logistics Support Division of the Office of Mission Support in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York and the Director of Administration at the United Nations Mission in Kosovo.




Doug Coates Coates had been acting commissioner of the United Nations stabilization mission in Haiti, while Gallagher was training and mentoring officers with the Haiti national police.

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