ll"Today's ceremony here at the UN headquarters in New York, is primarily an opportunity to remember the hundreds of thousands of victims and the hundreds of UN officials who lost their lives during the January 12, 2010 earthquake. It is also an opportunity to look back at the road traveled, the scale and complexity of the challenges that we had to overcome in five years, while taking stock of the remaining challenges, "said Ambassador Régis.
"The country still bears the indelible marks of this terrible disaster. The extreme vulnerability of Ha