#4596: Clinton Letter on Haiti Report (fwd)

[Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>]

From:nozier@tradewind.net

Clinton Letter on Haiti Report U.S. Newswire 12 Jul 14:50 

Text of a Letter from President Clinton on Haiti Report 
To: National Desk 
Contact: White House Press Office, 202-456-2580 

WASHINGTON, July 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today
by the White House: 

TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE CHAIRMEN OF THE SENATE
COMMITTEES ON FOREIGN RELATIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS AND THE HOUSE
COMMITTEES ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS 

July 11, 2000 

Dear Mr. Chairman: 

Pursuant to section 559(b) of the Foreign Operations, Export 
Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 
106-113), I hereby transmit to you a report concerning the status of 
Haiti's progress. 

The report contains eight subsections, that provide information 
required by section 559(b) of the Act, to the extent that such 
information is available. These subsections address: 

-- Governmental Institutions Envisioned in the 1987 Haitian 
Constitution; 

-- Privatization of Haiti's Major Public Entities; 

-- Efforts to Re-sign the Lapsed Bilateral Repatriation Agreement, 
and Cooperation in Halting Illegal Migration; 

-- Investigations and Prosecution of Extrajudicial and Political 
Killings, and Cooperation with the United States in Such 
Investigation; 

-- Removal and Maintenance of Separation of Human Rights Violators 
from Haitian Public Security Entities or Units; 

-- Ratification of the 1997 Maritime Counter-Narcotics Agreement; 

-- Development of Haiti's Domestic Capacity to Conduct Free, Fair, 
Democratic, and Administratively Sound Elections; and 

-- Demonstrated Commitment of Haiti's Minister of Justice to the 
Professionalism of the Judiciary, and Progress Toward Judicial Branch 
Independence. 

Sincerely, 
  

WILLIAM J. CLINTON