HAITI / CLINTON

Former U.S. President and UN special envoy Bill Clinton visits Haiti to discuss the recent cholera outbreak and efforts to rebuild after the January earthquake. MINUSTAH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:47
• Production Date: 15 December 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: DEVELOPMENT; HEALTH SERVICES; DISEASE PREVENTION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF
• Geographic Subject: HAITI; UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U101215b

Description

STORY: HAITI / CLINTON
TRT: 1:47
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES:

DATELINE: 15 DECEMBER 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, Clinton arriving to press conference
2. Wide shot, Clinton and Haitian Health Minister Dr. Lassegue
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Clinton, United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti:
"I don't have a candidate. My candidate is the reconstruction process. My candidate is the future of Haiti. I want the people to feel good about this and trust the outcome so we can have peace and order and that it encourages donors to invest in Haiti."
4. Med shot, Bill Clinton presenting a bag with cholera treatment kit to the press
5. Close up, bag
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Clinton, United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti:
"We have also promised to purchase 10,000 treatment kits that contain items like bleach, gloves, soap, water purification tablets and also literature to educate people on how to treat Cholera."
7. Cutaway, press
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Clinton, United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti:
"It is important to maintain the confidence of the international community and everybody else that the Haitian people have their voice heard. And we met with Prime Minister Bellerive who of course discussed it with President Preval to keep the flow of invests coming into Haiti so we can rebuild Haiti."
9. Wide shot, motorcade leaving

Storyline

Former United States (US) President and United Nations (UN) Special Envoy Bill Clinton visited Haiti today (15 December) to discuss the recent cholera outbreak and efforts to rebuild after the January earthquake.

Clinton’s visit comes amidst political impasse in the country. In recent weeks, thousands of protesters have been rampaging through the streets of Port au Prince accusing the ruling government coalition of rigging the results, after provisional tallies of the 28 November presidential and legislative elections put former first lady Mirlande Manigat and outgoing President Rene Préval’s party candidate Jude Celestin in first and second place, thus qualifying for January’s run-off.

At a press conference following his meeting with President Rene Préval and Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, Clinton said “my candidate is the reconstruction process,” and called for “peace and order” as well as a political climate that “encourages donors to invest in Haiti.”

The UN had warned that the violence was impeding efforts to fight a cholera epidemic that has already killed well over 2,100 people, with some 50,000 others hospitalized in country that is still struggling to recover from a devastating earthquake in January.
Clinton presented treatment kit containing items such as bleach, gloves, soap, water purification tablets and instructions on how to treat cholera.

He concluded the press conference talking about the importance of maintaining “the confidence of the international community and everybody else” as well as the need “to keep the flow of invests coming into Haiti so we can rebuild” the country.

Earlier this month, the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund announced an $816,472 grant to Architecture for Humanity, in support of the Haiti Rebuilding Center in Port-au-Prince. The grant is expected to enable small and growing Haitian businesses to participate in post-earthquake reconstruction and ensure rebuilding incorporates better design and engineering.