Chairman Kerry Opening Statement At Hearing On Haiti

by Gary Kopycinski on January 28, 2010

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Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 28, 2010. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) today delivered the following opening statement at the hearing on Haiti:

Today, Haiti is reeling in the aftermath of what may well be the worst humanitarian catastrophe the Americas have ever seen. Well over 100,000 dead, and more dying every day. An estimated one million Haitians displaced. Large parts of Port-au-Prince and several outlying cities flattened. An already weakened infrastructure basically collapsed.

The…