TodaysNetworkNews HAITI 3500 UN TROOPS URGENTLY NEEDED BAN KI-MOON UNTV UN OCHA

Description: TodaysNetworkNews: 18 January 2010 - UN OCHA - UNTV: United Nations: New York - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for an additional 3500 UN troops and police officers to be deployed to Haiti, which was devastated last week by a catastrophic earthquake, to ensure that aid reaches the victims of the disaster as quickly as possible. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called today for an additional 3500 United Nations troops and police officers to be deployed to Haiti, which was devastated last week by a catastrophic earthquake, to ensure that aid reaches the victims of the disaster as quickly as possible. After a closed meeting with the Security Council, Ban, just back from Haiti, told journalists outside the Security Council that Haiti needed immediate and urgent support and required a massive response from the international community. Ban said that MINUSTAH and key bilateral troop-deploying countries had agreed on a clear division of responsibilities for security and humanitarian support. Commenting on the scale of individual country pledges, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes who had accompanied the Secretary-General on his trip, said that although the response had been remarkably generous. He said that the report given by CNNs chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta which claimed Belgian doctors and nurses were asked to walk away from a field hospital on Friday evening because y UN officials told them to was, comprehensively showing to be untrue. Asked whether