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.
