Tue 24 Nov 2009
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Ban voices sympathy to family after UN staffer’s remains found in Lebanon
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed his sympathies to the family of Alec Collett, a staff member of the United Nations agency assisting Palestinian refugees who disappeared 24 years ago and whose remains have now been found in Lebanon.
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