Preval, Clinton attend ceremonies marking 1 year of quake
(12 Jan 2011) AP Televisio Port-au-Prince, Haiti - 12 January 2011 1. Wide of former US President Bill Clinton 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Clinton, Former US President: "Building a truly functioning society, economy and government, for a self-sustaining people; that takes a long time and I believe ironically that the crisis has given us a chance to speed that up, that is what we are going to work on this year." 3. Cutaway of Clinton 4. Cutaway of press conference 5. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean-Max Bellerive, Haitian Prime Minister: "About the 5.3 billion that was pledged in 2010, 15 or 20 percent of that has actually been given." 6. Wide of news conference 7. Wide of Lut Fabert, head of the European Union delegation in Haiti 8. Wide of European Union delegation press conference 9. SOUNDBITE (French) Lut Fabert, Head of the European Union delegation in Haiti: "The European Commission has given 120 million Euros, 120 million Euros to do what exactly? For tents, food and purified water. More concretely, the European Commission has distributed 67 thousand tonnes of food to Haiti. And the 30 million invested has brought aide to over 4 million Haitians. The European Commission has also delegated 11.5 million Euros of emergency assistance." 10. Cutaway of press conference 11. SOUNDBITE (French) Lut Fabert, Head of the European Union delegation in Haiti: "The OAS had done an extraordinary job - independent, serious. The conclusion from the work of the OAS, the goal is to donate the necessary transparency and to donate the possibility to rebuild confidence within the Haitian people and the electoral process." STORYLINE: Former US President and co-chair of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) Bill Clinton said on Tuesday he hopes to speed up the rehabilitation of Haiti, one year after a powerful earthquake struck the city on January 12, 2010 killing more than 230,000 people. Clinton, who is in Haiti to mark the one year anniversary, said that it was ironic that the crisis had provided a real need to build "a truly functioning society, economy and government". Roughly a (m) million people remain homeless amid the debris and slow reconstruction efforts in Port-au-Prince. Dignitaries from around the world are in Haiti to mark the anniversary. But they are also facing scepticism from a Haitian public that expected more progress towards reconstruction. Aid groups say only about 5 percent of the rubble from the quake has been removed and the capital is strewn with 20 (m) million cubic yards (metres) of collapsed concrete and twisted steel debris, enough to fill dump trucks that would encircle half the globe. At least a million displaced people, including 380-thousand children, are still in 1,200 tent-and-shack encampments that sprung up after the quake. Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said from the 5.3 (b) billion US dollars pledged, between 15 and 20 percent of the funds had been distributed to Haiti. In June 2010, 74 projects with a 3 (b) billion US dollar budget have been approved by the IHRC. This includes the building of the State University Hospital to rubble removal. Meanwhile, Lut Fabert, the head of the European Union delegation in Haiti, held a press conference in Port-au-Prince. Fabert said the European Commission has distributed tents, purified water and 67 thousand tonnes of food. Fabert also said the Organisation of American States (OAS) had done an "extraordinary job" in Haiti. Fabert said the OAS's goal was to bring transparency and to rebuild confidence "within the Haitian people and the electoral process." Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
