The Haitian Government must take the lead in this effort, for it “can only work if the Government clearly takes a leading role and is strongly supported by a coordinated international community,” he emphasized.Ī joint operations and tasking centre – comprising the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ( OCHA), MINUSTAH, the United States military and the Canadian military – will officially begin work tomorrow. Banbury said, to identify the key obstacles in providing aid and collaborate in overcoming them. The proposal put forward in Montreal today by the top envoy is “outcome driven,” he said, not dwelling on structures and processes for the relief effort. “While I think everyone wants to do what’s best for the Haitian people and the Haitian Government, really being committed to coordination and being willing to all move in the same direction, that’s a true challenge,” Mr. “There is a lot of talk about coordination, but the fact that there’s a need for it and a lot of talk for it doesn’t make it easy to accomplish on the ground,” Anthony Banbury, acting Principal Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti ( MINUSTAH), told reporters in New York via videolink from the capital, Port-au-Prince.Ĭoordination is complicated by the number of people working on the ground, many new to the country, who have different backgrounds, priorities and perspectives, he said.
The scheme seeks to coordinate and integrate the political, humanitarian and military facets of the international response to the quake, which has killed more than 100,000 people and severely affected an estimated 3 million others. Edmond Mulet, the Secretary-General’s acting Special Representative, unveiled that plan at a “Friends of Haiti” meeting in Montreal today which drew senior UN officials and foreign ministers from more than a dozen countries to discuss Haiti’s future in the wake of the 7.0-magnitude quake, which struck the country on 12 January.
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