United Nations Will Continue Working in Afghanistan, Despite the Difficulties: Ban Ki-Moon

UNITED NATIONS: Roughly 200 UN expatriate staff will be temporarily relocated outside Afghanistan in the wake of a deadly rebel attack on a guesthouse for UN workers, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said here Friday.

“Approximately 200 will relocate to other duty stations in the region,” the UN secretary general told reporters after briefing the Security Council on his recent visit to Kabul. “It is not 600 as has been reported by some media,” he added. “We are not evacuating. We will not, cannot and must not be deterred. Our work will continue. Our colleagues will have to manage temporarily with less administrative support.”

Earlier this week, Ban held talks with security advisors in Kabul after Taliban suicide gunmen stormed a Kabul hostel on October 28 in a dawn attack that killed five UN workers.

The UN has about 5,600 employees in Afghanistan, about 80 percent of whom are Afghans, and the relocations will affect around 12 percent of the total deployment.

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