US Secretary of State Debunks Aid ‘Not Reaching Haitians’
Posted: January 20, 2010 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, NZPacific, Politics, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: (Aaron, (Carl, (CVW), (HSC), 03000000, 03002000, 12, 13015001, 16, 17, 2010, 70, 9, african american african-american black, air, aircraft, assigned, campus, carrier, caused, cdm, citizens, combat, conducting, crewmen, damage, dis, disaster, earthquake, effort, Haiti, Haitian, helicopter, hispanic, HTI, humanitarian, january, krt2010, krtcampus, krtcaribbean caribbean, krtdisaster disaster, krtdiversity diversity, krtedonly, krtquake earthquake quake, krtworld world, magnitude, mct, navy, near, news, operations, Photo/MCT), PortauPrince, receive, recovery, relief, saturday, sea, severe, Shelley/US, Squadron, the, USS, Vinson, water, wing, woman women, youth Leave a comment[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=us+navy+haiti&iid=7560760″ src=”5/e/9/a/Haiti_Earthquake_Recovery_dd6a.JPG?adImageId=9301515&imageId=7560760″ width=”500″ height=”359″ /]
Haitian citizens receive water from air crewmen from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 9, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, January 16, 2010. The Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17 are conducting humanitarian and disaster relief operations after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake caused severe damage near Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010. (Aaron Shelley/US Navy News Photo/MCT).
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
January 16, 2010
Transcript Interview With NBC Andrea Mitchell
*Note: transcript provided by NBC News.*
QUESTION: Madam Secretary, from what you’ve seen so far, what have you learned since you’ve been on the ground that will help you make decisions that will help the people of Haiti?
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, Andrea, the most important thing is the very long meeting that I had with President Preval and his Prime Minister and the leadership that are functioning. We went into great detail about what Haiti needed, what the government needed and how we could better coordinate. I was able to convey both our willingness to assist, but our need to have that coordination so we are going to be working very hard. You know, I like – (airplane noise) That’s a good sound. That means something good is happening. Somebody’s coming or going. I was also able to have a briefing with our military on the ground, our embassy, our ambassador, who’s the chief of mission coordinating all of this. And we took a lot of notes – we have a lot of ideas that we’re going to follow up on and I think we’re making progress but we have a long way to go.
QUESTION: There is the perception – there’ve been complaints or reports of bottlenecks – that there’s a lot of aid coming in but it’s very hard to get it out to the people who need it. Read the rest of this entry »
Joint Communique of the United States and Haiti Governments
Posted: January 18, 2010 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, NZPacific, Politics, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: (Julie, 03000000, 03002000, 13015001, 16, 2010, african american african-american black, campus, cdm, center, Clinton, conditions, country, deadly, dis, discuss, earthquake, following, Haiti, Haiti's, HAITIEARTHQUAKE, Hillary, hispanic, HTI, Jacobson/AP/Pool/MCT), january, krt2010, krtcampus, krtcaribbean caribbean, krtdisaster disaster, krtdiversity diversity, krtedonly, krtquake earthquake quake, krtworld world, left, mct, meets, PortauPrince, president, Preva, Rene, right, saturday, secretary, state, States', Third, Tuesday's, united, woman women, youth Leave a comment[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=hillary+clinton&iid=7562218″ src=”6/7/9/6/HAITIEARTHQUAKE_b2a7.JPG?adImageId=9179247&imageId=7562218″ width=”500″ height=”333″ /]
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (center right) meets with Haiti’s President Rene Preva (third from left) on Saturday(yesterday NZtime), January 16, 2010, to discuss conditions in the country following Tuesday’s deadly earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Julie Jacobson/AP/Pool/MCT)
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Joint Communique of the Governments of the United States and Haiti
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
January 17, 2010
Issued at Port-au-Prince, Haiti
President René Préval of Haiti and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton of the United States of America met in Port-au-Prince in the wake of the catastrophic earthquake of January 12, 2010 and its tragic aftermath, and issued the following joint communiqué: Read the rest of this entry »
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