UN staff in Russia honour the memory of victims of the 2003 Baghdad tragedy. 19 august is the most horrible day in the UN history. On that day a year ago, 22 UN staff members were killed in a terrorist attack against the UN Headquarters in Baghdad. In order to honour the memory of their colleagues who fell victims of that terrible bombing - as well as all those who lost their lives in line of their professional duties - the staff of the UN Agencies in Russia organised a memorial ceremony at the UN Information Centre in Moscow, on the first anniversary of the tragedy, 19 August 2004."The UN staff are no strangers to violence and intimidation... But the attack on the Canal Hotel ... brought us face to face with danger in a new and more intimidating form - that we may have become in ourselves one of the main targets of political violence" - this message formulated in the Secretary-General''s address on the occasion of the Baghdad tragedy was emphasised in the remarks at the ceremony by the UN Resident Coordinator in Russia Stefan Vassilev.Paying tribute to the memory of their fallen colleagues, the participants observed a minute of silence. The ceremony ended in screening a four-minute documentary video, a kind of a requiem to the remembered UN colleagues, which was produced by the UN Secretariat for the occasion.