THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

                 TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TO
        THE CHAIRMEN AND RANKING MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEES
             ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS
             AND THE SENATE COMMITTEES ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
                           AND APPROPRIATIONS

                            January 17, 2001

Pursuant to section 559(b) of Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000, I hereby transmit to you a report concerning the status of Haiti's progress.

The report contains eight subsections, which provide information required by section 559(b) of the Act, to the extent that such information is available. These subsections address:

• Governmental Institutions Envisioned in the 1987 Haitian Constitution.
• Privatization of Haiti's Major Public Entities.
• Efforts to Re-sign the Lapsed Bilateral Repatriation Agreement, and Cooperation in Halting Illegal Migration.
• Investigations and Prosecution of Extrajudicial and Political Killings, and Cooperation With the United States In Such Investigation.
• Removal and Maintenance of Separation of Human Rights Violators from Haitian Public Security Entities or Units.
• Ratification of the 1997 Maritime Counter-Narcotics Agreement.
• Development of Haiti's Domestic Capacity to Conduct Free, Fair, Democratic, and Administratively Sound Elections.
• Demonstrated Commitment of Haiti's Minister of Justice to the Professionalism of the Judiciary, and Progress Toward Judicial Branch Independence.

Sincerely,

WILLIAM J. CLINTON

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