Question:  Martin, isn’t that what President Clinton is doing right now?  What’s the difference between the new role and the one he has now?  He spent last year bringing in international partners [inaudible] and so forth? Spokesperson:  There is a clear difference regarding what he was doing last year was before the earthquake.  Recovery, we’re talking about how you build back from the earthquake and how, as the expression goes, you build back better.  And this is clearly something that he is well suited to doing; to mobilize people and to coordinate how the different folks out there -- whether it’s the business community, whether it’s governments, and government leaders, whether it’s the NGO community -- there is an awful lot of goodwill out there, an unprecedented flow of aids and good intentions and cash.  And the idea is to ensure that that comes together in the right way.  The difference between that and the role as the Special Envoy is that it’s more of a coordinating function, specifically aimed at the recovery efforts as we come out of the immediate crisis.

seen at 12:00, 3 February in Spokesman for the UN Secretary General. Email this to a friend.
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