Martelly is willing to forgive Duvalier

The Haitian President Michel Martelly hinted yesterday Thursday that indultaría the former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier that national reconciliation is more important than punishing "Baby Doc" by his bloody tyranny.

In an interview with The Associated Press in the context of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Martelly said that it will respect the independence of the judge that must be resolved in the coming days whether Duvalier should be tried for corruption and human rights violations.

Exile in 1986, Duvalier returned to Haiti last year. However, Martelly gave to understand that you fancy you just a trial that could be explosive in this Caribbean nation that tries to recover from decades of political turmoil and an earthquake that devastated her is two years.

"My thinking is to create a situation in which we join everything and create peace and forgive people: not to forget the past, because we must learn from him, but above all think in the" u000a"future", said. "We can not forget those who suffered at the time, but I really believe that we need reconciliation in Haiti".

Security
Fuerzqa Martelly said on the other hand that will create a Haitian security force to maintain order without peacekeepers of the UN

More than 11,000 troops foreign military and police patrolling Haiti since 2004 have been accused of sexual abuse and also suspected they were the source of a cholera outbreak that has killed nearly 7,000 people.

The President refused to blame the United Nations, that each solda-EFE OJ is responsible for his own misdeeds, but said he wants to create a security force to give work to between 3,000 and 5,000 young people and help the country to self-sufficiency.

. With regard to the departure of the troops of the UN, Martelly refused to put time limits, because it needs foreign cooperation, he said, to finance and train its force of u000aSecurity.

"We work with them to develop a timetable for their withdrawal," said. "I don't want that peacekeeping Nations feel that I'm driving."

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"YA NO SE complaint of their MISERIES" country
the President of Haiti, Michel Martelly, said yesterday that his country is not one "that complained of their misery" and that, to be virtually everything to rebuild after the earthquake of two years ago, investment opportunities are huge and very attractive.

This attempt to convince executives of large companies which will meet during your stay in Switzerland, where he participated in the World Economic Forum in Davos, this year devoted a session to Haiti in which participate the representative.

In an interview with Efe, Martelly stressed that you've come to Davos to explain that his country "is no longer the Haiti in the past, complained of their miseries, but a country that is considered" u000a"rico and offering opportunities".

The President acknowledged that reconstruction is slowly, but stressed in that return to lift a country "takes time" and the fact that the State has only been with 1 per cent of all international aid received so far for this task. The rest, says, has been channelled by international organizations and NGOs.

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