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Whereas the United States Government has frozen assets and
revoked the travel privileges of individuals associated with
the ruling junta in Haiti;
Whereas the June 1993 Governors Island Accord, which
would have resulted in the retirement of General Cedras,
the return of constitutional government, and a com-
prehensive package of international development assist-
ance, collapsed before implementation as a result of in-
transigence on the part of the Haitian military;
Whereas human suffering among the Haitian people has con-
tinued to escalate, with only 43 percent of the population
having access to safe water, and an infant mortality rate
of 95 per 100 births;
Whereas cases of malaria, typhoid fever, and acute res-
piratory infection have significantly increased over the
last year;
Whereas international humanitarian assistance efforts have
been able to provide food for no more than 19 percent
of the Haitian population, and this lack of access has re-
sulted in a dramatic increase in malnutrition;
Whereas the internal means to respond to the humanitarian
needs of the Haitian population is virtually nonexistent;
Whereas even if the military junta were to surrender power,
Haiti would remain a food-deficit nation with a chron-
ically unstable political and economic environment;
Whereas the political and civilian leadership of Haiti lack the
tools and the training to reassert public order and pro-
vide basic human services;
Whereas Haiti is appropriately categorized as one of the most
ecologically distressed areas in the world;
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Whereas Haiti’s condition and that of its people suggest it
is a tragically classic failed nation state; and
Whereas concerted international efforts will be required to
develop the economic and political institutions necessary
to permit Haiti to sustain its population and restore eco-
nomic, social, and political progress: Now, therefore, be
it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring), That
(1) it should be the policy of the United States
at the United Nations, the Organization of American
States, and other international bodies to support
and advocate the creation of an international
conservatorship for Haiti;
(2) 
such 
an 
international 
conservatorship
should be responsible for, among other things, co-
ordinating and administering the proper delivery of
bilateral assistance from international financial insti-
tutions;
(3) the international conservatorship should be
of a fixed duration, and should seek to rebuild the
political, economic, and social institutions that are
the basic prerequisites of an effective government
and sustainable development;
(4) the international conservatorship should be
established only if the Haitian elected officials and
senior military officers voluntarily surrender to a
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properly designated international institution the re-
sponsibility for administering public services, includ-
ing security and military affairs;
(5) the properly elected civilian leadership of
Haiti should agree to work on domestic policy mat-
ters in the closest possible way with the inter-
national conservatorship; and
(6) the international conservatorship should be
created under the authority of the United Nations
Security Council, operating subject to a resolution
adopted by the Security Council and a budget ap-
proved by the United Nations General Assembly.
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