By Andrew Khouri, Cana­dian Press

LONDON — Not enough aid has reached Haiti six months after its deadly earth­quake, U.N. Sec­re­tary Gen­eral Ban Ki Moon said Tuesday.

Ban told BBC radio from Jamaica that imme­di­ate human­i­tar­ian assis­tance is only being funded at 60 per cent. Donors must be held account­able for their pledges, he said.

“I would urge that there should be an account­abil­ity that when they have a pledge to this money they should imme­di­ately deliver this aid,” Ban told the BBC.

It wasn’t imme­di­ately clear whether Ban was mak­ing a flash appeal for aid or whether sig­nif­i­cant sums of aid still had not been received.

Ban’s com­ments came after Hait­ian Pres­i­dent Rene Preval com­plained that the gov­ern­ment lacks the money to run and re-build the country.

The Jan. 12 earth­quake dev­as­tated Haiti’s cap­i­tal and killed an esti­mated 300,000 peo­ple, accord­ing to the Hait­ian government.

Ban said he plans on talk­ing to for­mer Pres­i­dent Bill Clin­ton about the need to accel­er­ate aid. Clin­ton is the U.N. spe­cial envoy to Haiti.

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