2010 Badakhshan massacre the attackers "enemies of the Afghan people." United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who emphasized that "health workers must have access to treat those in need and must be able to do so without fear." His Special Representative Staffan de Mistura said "The United Nations condemns this serious crime and apparent cold-blooded execution." Australian foreign minister Stephen Smith issued a statement condemning the attack and offered condolences to the victims' families. British foreign secretary William Hague condemned the attack and stated "This is a deplorable and cowardly act which is against the interests of the people of Afghanistan who depended on
Chief secretary (British Empire) known as the colonial secretary or principal secretary outside British North America, where the equivalent title was provincial secretary. In 1821, Governor of New South Wales Philip Gidley King wrote that the colonial secretary: In Ireland, the role of chief secretary dated from 1660. The colonial secretary in the Colony of New South Wales and most of the other Australian colonies during the nineteenth century was a political position and not the position of a civil servant. The colonial secretary was thus a government minister and politician, and the position was fundamentally equivalent to the later term "home secretary", and