{"id":4055,"date":"2010-07-14T15:30:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T19:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2010-07-14T15:30:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T19:30:32","slug":"well-done-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/07\/14\/well-done-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Well Done, France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France takes <a href=\"http:\/\/diplomatiegov.fr\/bulletin.gb-14-07-2010.html\">a practically\u00c2\u00a0significant\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; and symbolically huge &#8211; step<\/a> towards making things right with Haiti:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>France Unveils Bastille Day Framework Initiative for Haiti\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Reconstruction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ever since Haiti was ravaged by the devastating earthquake of January 12, France has called for international debt forgiveness for Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>The French Republic and Haiti share deep ties of history, language and culture. Bastille Day is a perfect occasion to celebrate the cherished values of our rebublic&#8211;values that were also a beacon to the Haitian people when they cast off the shackles of slavery, and founded the second republic of the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>In the context of our national holiday, we are thus announcing the dawn of a new era of cooperation between France and Haiti\u00e2\u20ac\u201da partnership based firmly in these shared values. Whereas our nations&#8217; relations were, historically, at times tumultuous, today we start with a clean slate united by compassion and cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Framework Initiative for Haiti\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Reconstruction, unveiled today by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, <strong>France is repaying the historic debt of 90 million gold francs Haiti paid to France following the former\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s independence at the dawn of the 19th century.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>Under the new framework, the 90 million gold francs, which Haiti paid France from 1825 until 1947, will be reimbursed in a yearly budget over the course of 50 years. Economic advisors working with the Ministry have calculated that the total sum amounts to \u00e2\u201a\u00ac 17 billion including adjustments for inflation and a minimal interest rate of 5 percent per annum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Emphasis mine. \u00c2\u00a0Good luck, Haiti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France takes a practically\u00c2\u00a0significant\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; and symbolically huge &#8211; step towards making things right with Haiti: France Unveils Bastille Day Framework Initiative for Haiti\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Reconstruction Ever since Haiti was ravaged by the devastating earthquake of January 12, France has called for international debt forgiveness for Haiti. [ . . . ] The French Republic and Haiti [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}