Via Caribbean Journal: St Vincent’s Gonsalves Urges UN to Apologize For Bringing Cholera to Haiti. Excerpt:
The UN needs to apologize for its role in bringing cholera to Haiti in 2010, St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves told the UN General Assembly on Friday.
Gonsalves said there was “no longer any scientific dispute” that the UN was responsible for the outbreak, which has killed more than 8,000 people in Haiti and infected more than 600,000.
“I continue to be deeply disturbed by the UN’s callous disregard of the suffering it has wrought in a fellow CARICOM country, and by the shameful, legalistic avoidance of what is a clear moral responsibility on the part of the UN,” he said. “I call on Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to acknowledge unambiguously, and apologize for, this organization’s role in the tragedy, and to take immediate steps to compensate the victims and their families.”
Anything less, he said, “will further undermine the moral authority and credibility of this institution.”
