Former US President Bill Clinton was met by angry Haitians protesting at the slow arrival of international aid to the country since the devastating earthquake three weeks ago. He denied suggestions that he has effectively taken over the running of the country.
Clinton, who last week was designated by the UN as co-ordinator of international aid, said he was sorry it had been so slow to be delivered to those in need.Speaking after a visit to a clinic in the ruined capital of Port-au-Prince, he urged Haitians to undertake an ambitious reconstruction of their country and denied suggestions that he has become the country's effective governor.
"What I don't want to be is the governor of Haiti," he said. "I want to build the capacity of the country to chart its own course. They can trust me not to be a neocolonialist, I'm too old."
Clinton stressed that he was not in Haiti to intervene in the case of ten American Christians detained on kidnapping charges. They were denied conditional release on Friday, according to their lawyer, Edwin Coq.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that the US ambassador was working with Haitian officials on the case, and that Washington expressed "hope that this matter can be resolved in an expeditious way". "Obviously, this is a matter for the Haitian judicial system," she added.
There is a "strong movement" towards cancelling Haiti's death at the meeting of the G7 group of industrialised nations, according to Canadian Prime Minister Jim Flaherty.
Debt relief for the quake-hit country is on the agenda of the meeting which opened late Friday in the Iqualit, in Canada's far north.
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