The United Nations on Thursday formally rejected a multibillion-dollar damages claim for a cholera epidemic in Haiti that has been widely blamed on U.N. peacekeepers.
About 8,000 people have died in the epidemic since October 2010 but U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said a complaint made by lawyers for the victims was “nonreceivable” under a 1946 convention setting out the U.N.'s immunities for its actions.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon telephoned Haiti's President Michel
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