Former US president and UN special envoy Bill Clinton met with Haitian President René Préval in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Monday, marking six months since the massive earthquake devastated the city and much of the Caribbean nation. The earthquake killed 300,000 people and left over one-and-a-half million people homeless. President Clinton acknowledged not enough has been done to rebuild Haiti, but he praised the overall relief efforts.

President Clinton: “To those who say we have not done enough, I think all of us who are working in this area agree: so far the pace of the reconstruction is a little bit ahead of where we were in South Asia after the tsunami six years ago. And yet, Aceh, the hardest-hit area, was far away from the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta. Their capital was not destroyed, and their budget was not destroyed. The Indonesian government added $2 billion of its own money to the international commitments. This is a harder job, and therefore, viewed comparatively, I think the Haitian government and the people who are working here have done well the last six months.”