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July 13, 2010

Bill Clinton: Not Enough Done Yet For Haiti
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Former US President and UN Special Envoy Bill Clinton met with Haitian
President Rene Preval in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, on
Monday marking 6-months since the massive earthquake devastated the city
and much of the Caribbean nation. The earthquake killed 300,000 people
and left over one and a half million people homeless. President Clinton
acknowledged not enough has been done to rebuild Haiti but he praised
the overall relief efforts.

President Clinton: "To those who say we have not done enough, I think of
us who are working in this area agree... So far the pace of the
reconstruction is a little bit ahead of where we were in South Asia
after the tsunami six years ago. And yet Aceh, the hardest hit area, was
far away from the capitol of Indonesia, Jakarta. Their capitol was not
destroyed, and their budget was not destroyed. The Indonesian government
added two billion dollars of it’s own money to the international
commitment. This is a harder job and therefore viewed comparitively, I
think the Haitian government and the people who are working here have
done well the last six months."



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