Washington, January 26: Haiti’s government is ready to lead the relief and reconstruction effort after the devastating earthquake which killed as many as 200,000 people and left an estimated 1.5 million homeless.
Speaking at a conference on the tragedy in Montreal yesterday, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, said: “Haitians continue to work in precarious conditions but it is in the position to assume the leadership expected of it by its people in order to relaunch the country on the path to reconstruction,” Mr Bellerive said.
But with squabbles breaking out between some countries on the effectiveness of the relief effort so far, Mr Bellerive nonetheless insisted that his country will continue to need “massive” assistance in the wake of the 7.0-magnitude quake which struck two weeks ago.
–Agencies