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UN chief to attend Haiti donors' conference

15 years ago

2009-04-03 23:32:01 -
WASHINGTON (AP)

- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend a donors' conference for Haiti this month, the conference organizer said Friday.

Dora Courrea, general manager for the Caribbean section of the Inter-American Development Bank said countries and private organizations have been invited, both previous donors and prospective new ones.
«What I hope is that even if potential new donors do not come to give for financing projects, the conference will be an opportunity to better learn priorities needed by Haiti for the future,» Courrea said.

She said the conference faces a possible problem in that many organizations committed substantial sums to Haiti to help it recover from devastating hurricanes last year.

Haiti's prime minister, Michele Duvivier Pierre-Luis will head the Haitian delegation, said Haiti's ambassador, Raymond Joseph.

Ban, who visited Haiti last month with former U.S. President Bill Clinton, appears to have taken a keen interest in the future of the Western Hemisphere's poorest country.

In recent public statements about Haiti, he has pointed to the coming conference as an opportunity to turn around the country's economy. The United States has given the Haitians duty-free and quota-free access to its market for the next nine years.

«We can build on this,» Ban told reporters last month. «It is a golden opportunity to bring in investors and create hundreds of thousands of jobs.

He said President Barack Obama agreed with his assessment of Haiti's prospects.

«We can make a big difference in Haiti, President Obama told me, even with relatively small investments,» Ban said.

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