The Secretary will be in the north country for a few days to start the week.
Secretary Clinton to Travel to Canada for G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting and Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Arctic Coastal States
Philip J. Crowley
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Public Affairs
Washington, DC
March 25, 2010Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Ottawa and Gatineau, Canada, March 29-30, for the G8 Foreign Ministers meeting to prepare for the G8 Leaders Summit in Canada June 25-26. Prior to the Ministerial, she will attend a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the five Arctic Coastal States. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will accompany Secretary Clinton to the Arctic Coastal States meeting.
Then on Wednesday, as I am very mindful, our SOS will be at United Nations headquarters in New York for the Haiti Donors Conference. The former POTUS also participates in this conference. Last year, they were scheduled at two different ends of the day - she in the morning, he in the evening. We hope everyone is grown-up enough this year to be able to see them together for some portion of the day - especially now that both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have been recruited by the administration to raise funds. It should not be a secret - she's his girl!
International Donors' Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
March 16, 2010The United States, in cooperation with the Government of Haiti, will join the United Nations in co-hosting a ministerial-level International Donors’ Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti on March 31, 2010 in New York at UN Headquarters. After the outpouring of global support for the immediate needs of the people and Government of Haiti following the devastating earthquake on January 12, attention is now turning to the longer-term recovery and reconstruction needs of the country, even while the relief effort continues.
The International Donors’ Conference will be an opportunity for the international community to pledge new financial assistance to help Haiti rebuild, and to mobilize a truly global and sustained international effort to partner with Haiti. The Conference will focus on pledges of assistance for recovery and development, as distinct from the humanitarian assistance so generously provided by over 140 donors so far.
Priorities for assistance will be set by the Government of Haiti, which will present its strategy for recovery based on input from a Post-Disaster Needs Assessment led by the Government with the joint support of the United Nations, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, European Commission, and major donors.
This Donors’ Conference is just one step in mobilizing the broad international support that the government and people of Haiti must have in order to realize their vision of a stronger, vibrant Haiti emerging from this tragedy. We are proud to contribute to a broad-based effort that will integrate public and private international assistance with the contributions of a vigorous Haitian private sector, active engagement of non-governmental organizations, and widespread civic engagement. Preparation for the International Donors’ Conference thus includes broad-based consultations with key constituencies, including Haitian civil society, the Haitian Diaspora, the private sector, Haitian state and local government, non-governmental organizations, and stakeholders in the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). Representatives from these consultations will report back to the plenary of the International Donors’ Conference.
The United States is pleased to be partnering with the United Nations in this effort in the interests of mobilizing a truly global response on behalf of Haiti.
Key Findings of Workshop on Rebuilding for Resilience: How Science and Engineering Can Inform Haiti's Reconstruction
