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Clinton named UN int'l coordinator for Haiti
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-02-04 01:39
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday appointed former US President Bill Clinton the United Nations international coordinator for relief efforts in Haiti, a UN spokesman said.
Ban will formally appoint Clinton to "represent the UN at the strategic level" and coordinate aid, financial assistance and reconstruction, a UN official told reporters Tuesday on condition of anonymity.
The January 12 earthquake, which devastated Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, killed up to 300,000 people and brought unimaginable suffering to the island nation already experiencing decades of conflict and poverty.
