The Prime Minister, Dr. Garry Conille, heading a large delegation, left the country Saturday for Washington. The Haitian delegation will stay in the U.S. capital until February 10. During this mission, the delegation will among other :

Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank (WB), Hasan Tuluy, Vice-President of the World Bank for Latin America and Caribbean, Luis Alberto Moreno, President of the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), Christine Lagarde, Director General of International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Mr. Paulo Nogueira Batista, Administrator of IMF for Haiti, and members of Congress including Senator Mary Landrieu (Chairwoman Appropriations Committe), the Senator Ben Cardin (Chairman International Development & foreign Assistant Economics affairs) and the Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the delegation before leaving Washington will meet at the Headquarters of OXFAM representatives of the NGO.

The Haitian delegation is composed of: André Lemercier Georges, the Minister of Economy and Finance, Yanick Mézile, the Minister for Women, of the Senator Simon Dieuseul Desras, (President of the Haitian Senate) and of Deputy Guy Gérard George (President of the Foreign Affairs Commission).

The absence of the President of the Lower House, the Deputy Levaillant Louis-Jeune must be noted, he officially announced Saturday at the last minute, that he did not wish to accompany the delegation, due to conflict between the executive and legislative, a decision who, undoubtedly, will not contribute to the improvement of these relations.

HL/ HaitiLibre