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A senior UN official said that the United Nations headquarters complex in New York has suffered significant damage due to flooding from superstorm Sandy. UN under-secretary-general for safety and security, Gregory B. Starr, made the statement during a briefing at the UN General Assembly.
Starr said the flooding was worse in lower levels of the UN complex along New York’s swollen East River. But he said that the UN headquarters was in constant contact with operations around the world, clearing missions into highly dangerous areas.
The UN headquarters reopened on Thursday after being closed for three days. Superstorm Sandy prompted the UN Security Council to move a special meeting to a temporary base on Wednesday.
Starr said, "We are not back to full operations, but given the fact that this hurricane ended on Tuesday morning I think we’ve made some remarkable efforts to get back in operation for the Security Council on Wednesday and to have the amount of operations that we have today. We clearly have some difficulties in terms of our communications systems, we need to look closely at that and as Susana Malcorra, the UN Under-Secretary for Field Support said she will be leading a group to look at how we can make things better and do things better in the future on that end and overall look at how we responded to this."
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