UN envoy Bill Clinton chides donors over Haiti aid

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Haiti has kept its  promise to build a government but donor nations have failed to  deliver the aid they pledged to the poorest country in the  western hemisphere, Bill Clinton said yesterday.

“They’ve only gotten a pittance of the aid that was pledged  to them,” Clinton, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s special  envoy to Haiti, told reporters after addressing a meeting of  the Security Council on the Caribbean nation.

“A lot of that is part of the appropriations process that  plays out in the latter half of every year,” the former U.S.  president said. “But we can’t get to January with only $21  million of over $760 million in commitments disbursed down  there (in Haiti).”
“We’ve got to get the show on the road,” Clinton added.

Clinton said Haiti has been delivering on promises to  stabilize the country.

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