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Haiti: Cholera outbreak under control – Prime Minister Lamothe
“We want it to go through the Haitian government. The Haitian government will allocate it and work together with the different communities on the ground,” he said.
Lamothe said 54 percent of Haitians were living in extreme poverty and during the next year he hoped to reduce that to 40 percent. He said that while some aid groups were withdrawing he was not concerned Haiti was being forgotten.
“Usually a country is forgotten when things are doing better, so we like to think things are doing better,” he said.
A U.N. peacekeeping force in Haiti was recently extended for another year, but the number of authorized troops and police will be reduced by about 1,700 to 8,800 by June 2013.
U.N. peacekeepers – who helped maintain security, especially during elections plagued by fraud and unrest – are gradually handing over responsibility to the Haitian National Police.
“We want our police to be up to par and when that happens in three or four years, then we will be ready,” Lamothe said.
