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energy resources. Only by putting greater emphasis on a collaborative approach to ong>theong>complex policy issues of security and development in ong>theong> Caribbean will ong>theong> U.S. onceagain be able to regain its legitimacy as a trusted actor and ally.Johanna Mendelson Forman is a Senior Associate at ong>theong> Center for Strategic andInternational Studies (CSIS).The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a private, tax-exemptinstitution focusing on international public policy issues. Its research is nonpartisan andnonproprietary. CSIS does not take specific policy positions; accordingly, all views,positions, and conclusions expressed9. INTERVIEW-Haitian leader says priorities drugs, corruption21 Jun 2007ReutersBy Joseph Guyler Delvahttp://www.alertnet.org/ong>theong>ong>newsong>/ong>newsong>desk/N21419973.htmWASHINGTON, June 21 (Reuters) - Haiti's president said on Thursday that fightingdrug trafficking and corruption in his impoverished Caribbean country was now ong>theong>priority of his government.Rene Preval said in an interview in Washington, D.C., that sustainable social andeconomic development was not possible unless both plagues were fought."Police officers, judges, customs and government officials are bought off by drug dealersand ong>theong>re will be no stability if traffickers are not defeated," Preval told Reuters during ameeting of Caribbean leaders in ong>theong> U.S. capital."They will do anything to destabilize ong>theong> government."Haiti, ong>theong> poorest country in ong>theong> Americas, has suffered frequent waves of violentinstability as it tried to build a democracy after decades of dictatorship.Its first democratically elected leader, former Roman Catholic priest Jean-BertrandAristide, was ousted early in his first term in a military coup and ong>theong>n again during a laterterm through an armed rebellion in February 2004.Preval's election last year revived hopes for peace and a U.N. peacekeeping force has inrecent months had some success in tackling ong>theong> street gangs that had taken control of ong>theong>sprawling slums of ong>theong> capital Port-au-Prince.But Haiti remains a significant transshipment route for South American cocaine and itspolice and courts are notoriously corrupt, presenting challenges to efforts to builddemocratic institutions and economic conditions that would ease grinding poverty.

Preval and 14 oong>theong>r Caribbean leaders met with U.S. President George W. Bush onWednesday to discuss trade, economic development and regional security.Preval said when it was his turn to speak he addressed only ong>theong> problem of drugtrafficking."Because if this problem is not solved, ong>theong>re is no point in talking about a strong state,about investments, progress and stability," said Preval.Preval, who recently submitted to parliament a bill that would force government officialsand ong>theong>ir close dependents to declare ong>theong>ir assets every year, said corruption was a majorthreat to development."...If we allow smugglers and oong>theong>r corrupt officials to go unpunished, honest investorswon't come to do business in our country," he said.

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