HAITI / CLINTON

UN Special Envoy for Haiti Bill Clinton makes a one-day visit to the country to discuss reconstruction efforts. MINUSTAH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:29
• Production Date: 16 February 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: DEVELOPMENT; HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF
• Geographic Subject: HAITI; UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U110216d

Description

STORY: HAITI / CLINTON
TRT: 1:29
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2011, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI

Shotlist

1. Med shot, podium
2. Med shot, Presidential candidate Mirlande Manigat and Senator Youry Latortue
3. Med shot, Presidential candidate Michel Martelly
4. SOUNDBITE (French) (unofficial transcript) Jean Max Bellerive, Prime Minister, Haiti:
“It was essentially a question of taking out 400,000 more persons from the camps to install them in security housing. Remove in a secure way and in addition remove four million cubic meters of rubble. Build hospitals and clinics. Have a construction site of 30 hospitals and clinics. Give to 50 percent of the people access to the drinking water and sanitation services. In brief a list of measurable objectives which some find insufficient, because when we say what we are going to do, we estimate automatically what we are not going to so which will then result in the partial reconstruction of the country.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Clinton, Former President, United States:
“Keep in mind that this whole thing will not work if either we lose transparency or accountability on one side or the commitments never materialized on the other. We have a real chance to move this thing this year; we can really start affecting large numbers of lives in a short amount of time if we do it and we stay together. I’m optimistic that we have a lot to do.”
7. Wide shot, audience applaud

Storyline

Former United States President and United Nations (UN) Special Envoy in Haiti Bill Clinton visited Haiti yesterday (15 Feb) and held a meeting on the country’s recovery efforts.

During his one-day visit, Clinton, who co-chairs the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) with Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, talked about the need to move hundreds of thousands of homeless people from camps for the internally displaced.

At the IHRC meeting, Clinton said “we have a real chance to move this thing this year” adding that he felt optimistic that much can be done for a large number of people in a short period of time “if we do it and we stay together.”

Also present at the meeting were Haitian Presidential candidates Mirlande Manigat and Michel Martelly.

The 7.0-magnitude quake claimed more than 200,000 lives and left 1.3 million more people homeless in January 2010. Countless buildings, including Government facilities, hospitals and schools, were also destroyed.