Santo Domingo Declaration

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The final Declaration of Santo Domingo produced at the conclusion of the "United for a Better Future for Haiti" pre-Summit, convened by President Leonel Fernandez for his counterpart President Rene Preval, calls for the drafting of a strategic plan to be submitted at a following summit. The draft will be based on the UN Millennium Development Goals, the 2008-2010 National Strategy Document on growth and poverty reduction and the World Bank document best known as Haiti: Options and Opportunities for Growth. They also agreed to propose that the G20 set up a fund for the reconstruction of Haiti, based on experiences with the Iraq reconstruction fund. The document concludes: "The globalized world in which we live also demands global answers from us. The countries and organizations attending this meeting believe the future of Haiti is deserving of the added endeavors of the international community.
The Haiti crisis has reaffirmed again that our globalized world, not only governments, but citizens as well, feel that nothing that happens to others is alien to us, that we can and must build a world that is fairer and more humane.
For thousands of Haitians this tragedy has signified an end; it is our responsibility to see to it that for the millions of citizens in this and other continents this becomes a new beginning."
See: www.presidencia.gob.do/app/article.aspx?id=11892 (http://www.presidencia.gob.do/app/article.aspx?id=11892)

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