VIDEO: UN Officials file past, pay last respect to Kofi Annan

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Persons holding office, or having held office, in the United Nation were present at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) on Tuesday to bid Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General of the UN, farewell.

Some of them were clad in the UN attires to pay their last respect to Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Mr. Annan’s body arrived in Ghana on Monday, draped in a UN Flag aboard a chartered flight from Geneva, Switzerland.

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The general public, heads of department, associations and other will file past the body on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, former ministers of state, members of the diplomatic corps, Members of Parliament, ministers of state, members of the Council of State, members of the Mfantsipim Old Boys Association, chiefs and queen mothers, the Akwamuhene and his delegation and Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II’s delegation will also past Mr Annan’s remains.

There will also be a private burial at midday on Thursday at the Military Cemetery with full military honours and a 17-gun salute.