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Brazil
UN SECRETARY-GENERAL REMARKS AT THE FUNERAL OF SERGIO VIEIRA DE MELLO
Rio de Janeiro. 23 August
Dear friends,
I thank you all for being here today, as we mourn the loss of a dear friend of mine, a beloved son of Brazil, and a great servant of the United Nations.
The people of Mozambique, of Lebanon, of Cambodia, of Bosnia and Herzegovina, of the Congo, of Kosovo � of many countries, on almost every continent, and perhaps most of all the people of Timor Leste �will remember him as one who was there to help them in their hour of greatest need, to relieve human suffering and to champion human rights.
I believe the people of Iraq, too, will look back on him with gratitude.
His work there is left unfinished. But, please God, we shall complete it.
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His dying wish was that the United Nations Mission there should not be pulled out. Let us respect that. Let Sergio, who has given his life in that cause, find a f