At a press conference today, prime minister of Haiti Jean-Max Bellerive said that it was essential that policies emerging from the upcoming Haiti Reconstruction Conference shift from short-term emergency assistance to building permanent state capacity.
Representing the Haitian cabinet, Prime Minister Bellerive said that he would be an active participant in the conference negotiations and consultations, while counterpart Haitian president Rene Preval assumes a role on the conference Steering Committee, alongside UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, and power couple UN Special Envoy former president Bill Clinton, and his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Bellerive said that in the lead-up to the conference, he has had extensive consultations with nearly all other interested parties, from donor governments, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations. He added that so far he was encouraged that all the representatives seem to have common interests, and that he was looking forward to working with the other delegates at the conference.
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