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Posted: 4:35 PM Dec 3, 2009
UN: Soccer Great Zidane Won't Visit Gaza
JERUSALEM (AP) - A UNICEF spokeswoman retracted a statement that retired soccer star Zinedine Zidane will visit Gaza in March as a goodwill ambassador.
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JERUSALEM (AP) - A UNICEF spokeswoman retracted a statement that retired soccer star Zinedine Zidane will visit Gaza in March as a goodwill ambassador.
The report originally appeared on the Israeli news Web site Ynet. Asked by telephone Thursday from Jerusalem to her office in Geneva, UNICEF spokeswoman Veronique Taveau said the report was true, and promised to send a news release.
Later Taveau sent an e-mail saying that she had been "misunderstood," and Zidane would not be coming. She wrote that Zidane represents another U.N. body, UNDP, the United Nations Development Program, not UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund.
UNDP officials also denied the report of Zidane's visit through e-mail messages.
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