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MONTREAL — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and officials from more than two dozen other donor nations and international organizations met here Monday to assess the progress of the Haiti relief effort.
Haiti’s government asked the international community to provide $3 billion for Haiti’s reconstruction, the tourism minister said. Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said his nation lost 60 percent of its gross domestic product in the quake.
Returning from Haiti, international Red Cross spokesman Paul Conneally said in Geneva that a new Port-au- Prince must be planned.
“It’s going to require, minimum, a generation,” he said, adding that the need for heavy equipment to tear down damaged buildings was growing.
