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Romanian President Sends Condolences For Deaths In Mazar-i-Sharif Attack

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Saturday has sent his condolences to the family of Filaret Motco, who was killed Friday in an attack on a UN office in Afghanistan.
Romanian President Sends Condolences For Deaths In Mazar-i-Sharif Attack
02 apr. 2011, 15:45,

Basescu expressed his country’s solidarity with the states whose nationals were killed in the attack.

The Romanian Foreign Affairs Ministry on Saturday confirmed that Filaret Motco was among the victims of the Mazar-i-Sharif incident.

Filaret Motco was working within the Political Affairs Department of the UN office in Mazar-i-Sharif. He had also participated in UN operations in Kandahar, Tajikistan, the North Caucasus, Chechnya, Kyrgyzstan and in several other operations led by international organizations, said the source.

Seven UN staff members and five Afghan protesters were killed in the attack. Demonstrators were protesting the burning of a Koran by a pastor in the United States.