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- Haiti earthquake - Hillary Clinton - USA
Hillary Clinton in Port-au-Prince to discuss aid strategies
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived Saturday in Haiti to work on an urgent bid to clear logistics hurdles and find creative ways to deliver aid to quake-hit Haitians. Clinton plans to meet Haitian President Rene Preval.
By News Wires (text)
AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived Saturday in Haiti to work on an urgent bid to clear logistics hurdles and find creative ways to deliver aid to quake-hit Haitians.
Clinton, who arrived in the devastated capital Port-au-Prince shortly before 2000 GMT, is the highest-ranking US official to visit Haiti since the massive quake struck on Tuesday.
She has said she would meet President Rene Preval to ask how the United States could help tackle fuel shortages and other logistical problems that were dogging the relief effort.
The chief US diplomat, who met Preval during a visit to Port-au-Prince in April last year, told reporters traveling with her that she wanted to "listen to him, to be sure we are as responsive as we need to be."
Clinton and Rajiv Shah, her director of the US Agency for International Development, said the UN World Food Program had begun setting up food and water distribution centers at 14 points across the capital. "We're looking to expand that," Shah said.
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Heads of State, Diplomats, and other "VIPs" should not be visiting Haiti for their "photo-op". Their visits take up valuable time of officials and add workers, they consume amounts of water and food that should be going to survivors, their planes use valuable landing spaces and resources in airports. They should stay at home--and not disturb the humanitarian work! Exception: Ban Ki Moon has a valid reason to be their, his organization has probably lost hundreds of people, it is valid for him to be present on the site of their greatest disaster.
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Je remercie toutes les organisations internationales qui viennent en aide au peuple haitien. Haiti est mon pays natal, je ne suis pas prête à oublier cette catastrophe qui a dévasté mon pays et de nombreux corps humains qui surgissent partout, c'est très traumatisant.
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