U.S. Policy

Updated July 6, 2000

U.S. Policy

Senate Concurrent Resolution No.126. Expressing the sense of Congress that the president should support free and fair elections and respect for democracy in Haiti. June 30, 2000.
Congressional Holds on Haiti Money, May 1, 2000.
Customs Dispute in Haiti Brings Freeze in U.S. Humanitarian Assistance. CARE reports that a lifeline for thousands of families is in jeopardy. April 14, 2000.
"Standing Firm for Free and Fair Elections." Statement of Assistant Secretary of State Peter Romero at the House Foreign Affairs Committee on April 5, 2000. .
Statement of Representatives Gilman, Conyers, Delahunt, Goss, and Rangel.
Press statement -- Visit of presidential assistant Arturo Valenzuela and State Department Haiti coordinator Donald Steinberg, March 22, 2000.
Statement of Ambassador Steinberg before the Senate Appropriations Committee, March 21, 2000.
Statement of Sen. Patrick Leahy, March 21, 2000.

New State Department human rights report scores police for executions and rights violations. Recognizes impact of CIP's publication of the secret report of the presidential commission on the disputed 1997 elections (the Lissade Commission report). Says after publication of this report the CEP inaugurated photo IDs, poll watchers and election-night reporting policy to prevent similar fraud.

House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Haiti, November 9, 1999. Witness list. Statements by Reps. Porter Goss and John Conyers, Jr. Notes from Sens. Mike De Wine and Bob Graham and Acting Assistant Secretary of State Peter Romero.
Conyers trip report. Calls on Congress not to abandon Haiti. September 27, 1999.
House debate on Haiti. Vote to pull U.S. military mission. June 9, 1999.

Letter to Congress in support of the International Civilian Observers' Mission (MICIVIH). Signed by CIP and other American nongovernmental organizations.

What's in the FRAPH Documents?
Views of a U.S. official who has read the documents, April 20, 1998.
Competing congressional resolutions on Haiti, 1999
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 3 (also introduced in the House), "Condemning the irregular interruption of the democratic political institutional process in Haiti." January 22, 1999.  Resolution introduced by Rep. John P. Conyers, Jr. March 4, 1999
Statement by Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman. March 4 Dear-colleague letter accompanying the Conyers resolution. March 11. 
Representative Gilman's report on his visit to Haiti, January 28.     Statement by Representative Conyers.
Press release by Representative Goss. March 4. Congressional holds on Haiti aid, early 1999.
Letter by Rep. Porter Goss. March 3, 1999. State Department talking points, August 1997.

 

Foreign Operations FY98 Appropriations Bill-HR.2159 Sec.567: 
Summary of section pertaining to Haiti Limitation on Assistance for Haiti section 567
Excerpt from House International Relations Committee Report

 

Hearings of the House International Relations Committee, Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, on May 14, 1997. References to Haiti.  Statement of Georges Fauriol, CSIS Senior Researcher on May 14, 1997 before the House International Relations Committee Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere. 

Hearings of the House Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations, February 1997. References to Haiti.

Closing statement of the Consultative Group on Haiti meeting given by Javed Burki of the World Bank held on April 4, 1997, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

 
Economic Aid to Haiti (source: Haiti External Financing-Indicative Commitments, Disbursements and Projections. World Bank. March 26, 1997): 
Economic aid by country Disbursed and committed amounts
Total economic aid by sector
 

Notes from the September 27, 1996 House International Relations Committee hearing on Haiti policy. Read the Republican attacks on the Clinton administration and the Democratic rebuttal. Testimony by William L. Swing, U.S. ambassador to Haiti.

Notes from the February 28, 1996 House International Relations Committee hearing on Haiti Policy, taken by Center Research Director Jim Morrell.

Opening statement of testimony on Haiti given by William E. Perry, deputy assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, before the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, January 31, 1996.

Notes from the January 4, 1996 House International Relations Committee hearing on Haiti Policy,taken by Center Research Director Jim Morrell.

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