The acting United Nations envoy to Haiti today urged the international community to change its way of operating in the Caribbean country, saying there was "little to be proud of" over the past few decades, according to dpa. The international community should "examine its conscience," Edmund Mulet said, following an informal meeting of European Union development ministers who discussed the situation in Haiti following the January 12 earthquake. Mulet and US Haiti relief coordinator Rajiv Shah attended the meeting in Granja de San Ildefonso near the Spanish city of Segovia. The earthquake was not a "traditional or normal tragedy," but the EU, United States and others needed to prepare for a long presence in Haiti, Mulet said. Food aid was now reaching the population, but it would be difficult to find lodgings for all of the 1 million homeless people before the rainy season, the envoy said.
