Moscow.- Foreign Relations minister Carlos Morales concluded yesterday an official visit to Russia, where he said he totally supports ex president Bill Clinton’s statement that rich countries have broken their promise to help Haiti. “Enough of so many promises already, the hour has come to comply and Haiti needs a new beginning.”

The official also met with Russian lawmakers to analyze ways to bolster relations between the two countries.

Morales said he agrees with Clinton’s stance that rich nations haven’t provided the aid promised to Haiti to pull it from the economic and social morass and reorient its political system towards a functional democracy.  “Clinton’s position ratifies the one we’ve held as a country in all international forums, not only when the Foreign Ministry attends but also when president Leonel Fernandez himself attends.”

He said Haiti needs concrete, sincere and open aid to mitigate its nagging problems of the last decades.

“We share the idea of creating jobs, a policy which I’m sure Dominican businesses agree with, which knows how to contribute its own quota to this process. Our most convincing proof is the free zone at Juana Mendes (Ouanaminthe), Haiti, where more than 3,500 direct jobs have been created.”

Morales noted that when it held the Rio Group’s interim presidency, Dominican Republic nominated Haiti to join that organization as a full-rights member, “and we’re supporting it to join the countries which form the Latin American Summit.”