(U.S. Depart­ment of State) > http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/03/137826.htm

Wash­ing­ton, DC

March 4, 2010

The United States and the United Nations, in coop­er­a­tion with the Gov­ern­ment of Haiti, and with the sup­port of Brazil, Canada, the Euro­pean Union, France, and Spain will co-host a min­is­te­r­ial Inter­na­tional Donors’ Con­fer­ence Towards a New Future for Haiti at the United Nations in New York on March 31, 2010. The goal of the con­fer­ence is to mobi­lize inter­na­tional sup­port for the devel­op­ment needs of Haiti to begin to lay the foun­da­tion for Haiti’s long-term recovery.

The Gov­ern­ment of Haiti faces enor­mous chal­lenges fol­low­ing the dev­as­tat­ing earth­quake of Jan­u­ary 12. Meet­ing these chal­lenges will require a sus­tained and sub­stan­tial com­mit­ment from the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity, in sup­port of the Gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of Haiti. At the donors’ con­fer­ence, Haiti will present its vision for Haiti’s future and how inter­na­tional sup­port can assist. Donor coun­tries, inter­na­tional orga­ni­za­tions, and other part­ners will have an oppor­tu­nity to pledge resources, to coor­di­nate in sup­port of Haiti’s long-term recov­ery, and to com­mit to a sus­tained effort to sup­port Haiti.