Haiti - Politic : Visit to Haiti of President of the French Senate
Jean-Pierre Bel, President of the French Senate, accompanied by Senator Bernard Piras, Chairman of the friendship group France-Caribbean in French Senate, is expected in Haiti on Tuesday for a visit until August 2.
This trip, which follows the one made in France in February, by the Haitian President Michel Martelly, during which he had been received in the Senate https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-10574-haiti-politic-beginning-of-the-european-tour-of-president-martelly.html aims to reiterated the support of France to Haiti, which seeks to find, with the help of the international community, the path of economic recovery after the earthquake of January 2010.
During his stay, the President Bel, will be received by President Michel Martelly, who returns from Bahamas Tuesday https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11684-haiti-politic-tour-of-president-martelly-in-trinidad-and-tobago-and-the-bahamas.html with whom he will visit the hospital of the State University of Haiti, whose reconstruction is financed by France for 25 million dollars. He will also meet with the Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe and Senator Dieuseul Simon Desras, President of the Senate and will have a working meeting with the Deputy Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations.
Jean-Pierre Bel will also travel to Cap Haitien to meet with local authorities and representatives of the United Nations Mission for Stabilization in Haiti (MINUSTAH), as well as in the campus Roi Henry Christophe of Limonade of the State University of Haiti, supported by the French Cooperation before visiting the historic National Park of the Citadelle.
