Former US presidents George W Bush and Bill Clinton, named by the White House as special coordinators of aid to Haiti, today vowed not to abandon the quake-hit country, but admitted it would take time to recover even as things are moving very quickly in th Caribbean nation.
"It's frustrating, but I think we're moving on it quickly," Clinton told the ABC news in an interview.
"I have seen it on the TV screens. You have seen it on the TV screens. There is just unbelievable devastation," Bush told the television news channel.
Both the presidents appeared on a series of Sunday talk shows.
Bush and Clinton have come together to lead private initiative of reconstruction efforts in Haiti; where tens and thousands of people are believed to have feared dead. The two patients have urged people to be patient at the reconstruction efforts begin.
"We have to be patient. Give the military and the UN forces a day or so to build those logistics," Clinton said.
Noting that housing always takes too long.
"It's the thing that takes the longest. So we need to start thinking soon, like in the next few days, about how we're going to provide for a long-term living space for the people in a city that looks like a nuclear bomb hit it," he said.
