U.N. Chief Condemns horror attack on Pakistan School

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Wednesday 17 Dec 2014 - 12:39 Makkah mean time-25-2-1436 United Nations (IINA) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the “blood-curdling attack” on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, which has cost the lives of at least 130 people, the vast majority of whom were children, according to the United Nations news centre. "It is an act of horror and rank cowardice to attack defenseless children while they learn,” Mr. Ban said ahead of an address to the Security Council on regional cooperation. “The hearts of the world go out to the parents and families who lost loved one in the horrific attack". Stressing that the UN would continue to support the Government of Pakistan in its fight against terror and extremism and urging the Government to bring the perpetrators to justice, he said “no cause could justify such brutality". Senior officials from across the Organization echoed the Secretary-General’s comments, with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, also condemning “an utterly despicable and incomprehensibly vicious attack on defenseless children". The executive director of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Tony Lake, called the attack “horrific” and “callous” and said it should have more effect than merely to shock the conscience of the world. The UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, spoke during a visit to Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he is visiting schools and meeting children. Mr. Brown said the world was mourning “a human tragedy of monstrous proportion” that would bring grief to every school in the world. SM/IINA