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"Mr President, I would first of all like to thank all my fellow Members, and especially the Conference of Presidents, for having agreed to this debate on Haiti, proposed by my group. It was an emergency.
Last January, after the earthquake, the international community rallied round strongly in support of Haiti. However, it seems that there was a gap, not to say a gulf, between the promises made and the aid that in fact arrived on the ground. Last March, Baroness Ashton made a commitment, on behalf of the European Union, to provide aid worth EUR 1.235 billion to help the people of Haiti to build a better future.
Since last July, the NGOs and, in particular, MSF, Commissioner, have been sounding the alarm and reporting the pathogenic living conditions endured by hundreds of thousands of people. The situation has scarcely changed since then, yet people are amazed that the cholera epidemic is spreading very fast, and the international community is again beginning to feel pity. There have already been more than a thousand deaths, and the number of people affected is increasing all the time, even though specialists say that the measures to prevent the disease from proving fatal are relatively simple to take. However, health workers have little training in this disease, and there are problems in getting basic healthcare products to where they are needed.
Under such circumstances, how can one fail to understand why riots have taken place? The Haitian population feels quite helpless. It is difficult for it to go on having confidence in the international community. My questions will therefore be simple, Commissioner:
Where exactly is all the aid that the European Union promised to Haiti, and not just the humanitarian aid?
If it had arrived sooner, do you not think that this further tragedy could have been avoided?
How is it that, once again, international conferences seem to have resulted only in unkept promises?
Why are President Préval’s efforts to turn MINUSTAH into support for reconstruction not meeting with any response?
Finally, the Haitian population wants the elections to take place, but under what conditions will they take place and what sort of support will the European Union provide?"@en1
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