Tomorrow Thursday, April 12, the Mexican President Felipe Calderón at the head of a important political delegation and of businessmen, will be on official visit to Haiti as part of development of the cooperation and the strengthening of bilateral relations between the two countries. This is the first time that a President of Mexico in office visits Haiti.

Tuesday, Laurent Lamothe, the Foreign Minister and Prime Minister-designate, which has just passed yesterday with success the first stage of its ratification in the Senate https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-5373-haiti-politic-key-points-of-the-ratification-meeting-in-the-senate-of-laurent-lamothe.html , held a press briefing to explain what Haiti can expect from this visit.

"...On the side of Government of Haiti we prepare a beautiful meeting for them and as part of this visit, I must tell you that Mexico is preparing several programs with Haiti. Within the framework of these partnerships, they will go to Gonaïves, where the President Felipe Calderon has committed to renovate the hospital 'la Providence' at a cost of $8 million. Then they will provide 300 scholarships ; a vocational school to Aquin that they will establish with its management for two years, ; they will donate 15 vehicles ; they will build 12 clinics including 7 high-level [...]

They will have several meetings, they will meet with President Michel Martelly who will return home Thursday morning early [...] to meet with President Felipe Calderón. This will be a one-day visit, then the Mexican President will leave in the evening for the Summit of the Americas. The President Martelly will also travel to the summit Friday. We know that this is one of the biggest event of the Americas. All the Presidents of the regions participate, including U.S. President Barack Obama. This will be an opportunity again for Haiti, to work with partners to continue to promote the country on behalf of the people and to explain to our international partners what are the priorities of the day [... ]

This is a historic visit, Haiti can benefit a lot of it [...] we can learn much of Mexico. We remain very confident, we have a delegation of Mexican businessmen that will be there as part of the Business diplomacy and of development, we see that our efforts are bearing fruit [...] we rely on the cooperation of all for the visit of President Felipe Calderón is a total success [...] concretely economic benefits of this visit represents at least $20 million for the country.

[...] the battle we are doing, is not a battle that the Executive leads for its own account. This is a battle that all the powersand the State lead together to make progress the country [...] ot only we put them aware, but they also participate as well, thus, at the Summit of the Americas there will be parliamentarians who will get there, who will participate [...] because it is important that it is a participatory process, of inclusion, because when everyone is aware, at first glance, the whole process that must follow is much easier [...] it is essential that we work together for what we do for the people, we do it so quickly and efficiently. There is no room for too many words, the landing must be made ​​as soon as possible,

because there is not much time, is a term of 5 years, each day that passes is one day less where we can provide solutions and relief to the people [...]"

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-5373-haiti-politic-key-points-of-the-ratification-meeting-in-the-senate-of-laurent-lamothe.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-5369-haiti-politic-the-president-felipe-calderon-in-haiti-this-thursday.html

S/ HaitiLibre