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HAITI / BAN KI-MOON

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits Haiti for the second time since it was struck by a catastrophic earthquake in January. Says that the country is "beginning to transition from emergency relief to early recovery and reconstruction".

Duration:02:01Date:14 March 2010

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HUMANITARIAN AID AND RELIEF, DISASTER PREVENTION, PREPAREDNESS AND RELIEF, HAITI, United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti

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STORY: HAITI / BAN KI-MOON
TRT: 2.01
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ FRENCH/ NATS

DATELINE: 14 MARCH 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI  
 
SHOTLIST:

1.	Wide shot, journalists in the meeting room
2.	Close up, Haitian Foreign Minister 
3.	SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-Moon United Nations Secretary-General:
“We are beginning to transition from emergency relief to early recovery and reconstruction, but the situation remains extremely difficult.”
4.	Med shot, meeting room with the SG, President Préval and the Prime Minister of Haiti
5.	Close up, Prime Minister of Haiti
6.	SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-Moon United Nations Secretary-General:
“We have made progress, great progress, in supplying emergency food and water. The United Nations cash for work programme, employing 85,000 people to date, has been helpful in clearing debris and distributing relief supplies.”
7.	Med shot, Edmond Mulet 
8.	SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-Moon United Nations Secretary-General:
“MINUSTAH and Haitian National Police have done a great job maintaining security; with the role of US and Canadian forces, which in no way compromise the mission. We will make every effort to insure that IDP camps remain safe and secure, most especially for women and children.” 
9.	Close up, Haitian journalist taking notes
10.	Med shot, Haitian journalists taking notes
11.	Med shot, Haitian Foreign Ministry and Mulet
12.	SOUNDBITE (French) René Préval, President of Haiti:
“What I’m proposing is that the food items that are brought in to Haiti should not compete with local food production. Rather the food items should be bought locally so as to protect local agriculture, as well as to protect local business in order to help the government to generate revenue and also for the farmers to be able to sell theirs products in their local markets.”  
13.	Med shot, the SG, President Préval and the Prime Minister of Haiti, stand up.
14.	Med shot, the SG going out of the press conference room.

STORYLINE:

Two months after it was struck by a catastrophic earthquake, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today (14 March) that Haiti is “beginning to transition from emergency relief to early recovery and reconstruction" as he visited the country for the second time since the disaster.

Ban met with President René Préval and Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive and offered a press conference where he told journalists in Port-au-Prince that the situation in Haiti “remains extremely difficult.”

Estimates vary but as many as 230,000 Haitians may have been killed in the quake that struck on 12 January and much of Port-au-Prince and nearby towns was leveled. Around 1.3 million people remain homeless.

The Secretary-General noted that “great progress” has been made in providing emergency supplies of food and water, while the UN cash-for-work scheme has employed 85,000 people so far to clear debrief and distribute aid.

He highlighted that both the UN peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) and the Haitian National Police (HNP) have “done a great job” maintaining security and added that “every effort” will be made to insure that internally displaced persons (IDP) camps remain safe and secure, “most especially for women and children”.

He warned that shelter remains the biggest and most urgent priority as we rainy season approaches, followed by the scheduled start of hurricane season in June.

At the press conference, President Préval expressed concern about imported food items competing with local food production, and proposed that food items “should be bought locally” in order for Haitian farmers “to be able to sell theirs products in their local markets.”

Ban toured a camp that is home to tens of thousands of IDPs on a one-day visit to the Caribbean country ahead of the international donors' conference for Haiti that will be held at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 31 March.

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