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NAME: PER OAS 20070213I TAPE: EF07/0179 IN_TIME: 10:17:05:01 DURATION: 00:02:00:24 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Lima, 12 Feb 2007 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: Lima, Peru - 12 February, 2007 1. Wide of Peruvian Foreign Ministry 2. Wide of Organisation of American States (OAS) meeting 3. Pan of meeting 4. Mid of OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza 5. Pan of Insulza arriving at Peruvian foreign ministry 6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Jose Miguel Insulza, OAS Secretary General: "The meeting has discussed in depth these problems regarding international cooperation and the aid to Haiti, problems regarding development, and poverty. We found some conclusions but I would say that we have to remain there until the Haitian state is strongly established to conduct the country's business." 7. Wide of photographers 8. Close-up of sign Cite Soleil, Haiti - 9 February, 2007 9. Pan United Nations (UN) vehicle passes by 10. People carrying injured person on stretcher 12. Wide of UN soldiers, UPSOUND: gunfire 13. Mid of Major General Carlos Alberto Dos Santos Cruz, UN Mission in Haiti at planning meeting 14. UN convoy driving through streets STORYLINE: The Secretary General of the Organisation of American States (OAS) met with delegates on Monday to analyse the challenges of providing aid to Haiti. Jose Miguel Insulza said that the Caribbean country presents three major challenges to the international community: strengthening of the state apparatus; progress in security and economic development; and the coordination of efforts by organisations working to strengthen the Haitian state in ways that will be effective. Insulza spoke in the Peruvian capital during a meeting of the nine Latin American countries that make up the United Nations Mission for the Stabilisation of Haiti (MINUSTAH), as well as representatives of the United Nations (UN) and the OAS. "The meeting has discussed in depth these problems regarding international cooperation and the aid to Haiti, problems regarding development, and poverty,'' Insulza said. ''We found some conclusions but I would say that we have to remain there until the Haitian state is strongly established to conduct the country's business," added Insulza. The Secretary General recognised that since the February 2006 elections, the Haitian government has shown the political will to change the living conditions of the Haitian people. However, he noted that as long as 66 percent of the national budget relies on international financing, Haiti is forced to depend on external support. On Friday, hundreds of United Nations peacekeepers raided Haiti's largest and most violent slum, seizing a portion of it in a six-hour gunbattle that wounded two soldiers and killed a suspected gang member. More than 700 heavily armed blue-helmeted troops from seven countries participated in the pre-dawn raid on Port-au-Prince's sprawling Cite Soleil slum, entering the mazelike shantytown in armoured vehicles and on foot as UN helicopters circled above. The raid sparked an intense firefight within the densely populated slum of 300-thousand people.