HAITI/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: THREE HAITI ORPHANS GIRLS ARRIVE ON ONE OF LAST PLANES EVACUATING PASSENGERS FROM VIOLENT ISLAND TO S TART NEW LIFE IN SPAIN

Record ID: 647952

  • Title: HAITI/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: THREE HAITI ORPHANS GIRLS ARRIVE ON ONE OF LAST PLANES EVACUATING PASSENGERS FROM VIOLENT ISLAND TO S TART NEW LIFE IN SPAIN
  • Date: 26th February 2004
  • Summary: (U1) PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (FEBRUARY 26, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF EXTERIOR OF TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE AIRPORT 0.07 2. WIDE OF INTERIOR OF AIRPORT WAITING ROOM WITH PEOPLE WAITING FOR FLIGHT 0.10 3. SMV ADOPTION WORKERS HOLDING CHILDREN 0.15 4. SLV ADOPTION WORKEER CARRYING CHILDREN , WALKING DOWN STAIRS 0.19 5. SLV PASSENGERS AND ADOPTION WORKERS WALKING TO PLANE (2 SHOTS) 0.31 6. VARIOUS OF ADOPTION WORKERS HOLDING CHILDREN ENTERING PLANE/ INTERIOR 0.49 7. SLV PLANE 0.52 8. WIDE OF INTERIOR OF PLANE 0.56 (U1) SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (FEBRUARY 26, 2004) (REUTERS) 9. SLV PEOPLE STANDING UNDER AIRPLANE WING AS PASSENGERS GET OFF PLANE 1.02 10. SLV PASSENGERS GETTING OFF PLANE 1.11 11. SLV SPANISH AMBASSADOR MARIA JESUS FIGA LOPEZ-PALOP AND SPANISH CONSUL JORGE SANCHEZ GREETING PASSENGERS 1.27 12. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) SPANISH AMBASSADOR LOPEZ-PALOP, SAYING "A joint convoy (with the United Nations) was organised and, thank God, they arrived at the airport today. We synchronised that a plane would be at the airport to pick them up and, well, here we have these beautiful girls who have also come and who are Haitian girls pending adoption by Spanish parents." 1.51 13. SMV SPANISH EMBASSY OFFICIAL HOLDING CHILD 1.57 14. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) SPANISH EMBASSY OFFICIAL CELSA NINO SAYING "Very good. Everything was ready. We took food we had for the embassy. They were ready with vehicles; the passports were ready. The truth is, the airline wanted to leave quickly so we left fairly quickly. Everything went well." 2.15 15. SMV AMBASSADOR HOLDING CHILD 2.22 16. CLOSE-UP FACE OF LITTLE GIRL 2.24 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 12th March 2004 12:00
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  • Location: PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI AND SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
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  • Country: Haiti Dominican Republic
  • Reuters ID: LVADWQAXN6WA73MOVP76XCNI46DH
  • Story Text: Three Haitian toddlers fly out of their
    crisis-wracked country en route to Spain and adoptive
    families.



    As the last planes leave strife-torn
    Port-au-Prince, a flight organised by the Spanish embassy
    evacuated a small group of foreigners including United
    Nations dependents from Haiti on Thursday (February 26, 2004).

    On that flight were three little Haitian children,
    being flown from their homeland to start a new life in
    Spain.

    Originally scheduled to leave Port-au-Prince on
    Wednesday (February 25), the flight had been delayed
    because the barricades on the roads prevented passengers
    from making their way safely across the city. Eventually,
    four Spaniards, seven Haitians, including the children
    and one person each from Germany, Burundi, Bolivia and
    Chile were evacuated.

    The girls, all between 1-and-a-half and 3-years-of-age,
    were held in the arms of adoption workers who attended to
    their needs at the Toussaint L'Ouverture airport. As they
    tried to comfort the little girls, they said the children
    looked scared and weren't smiling much.

    But for the girls, former residents of a Port-au-Prince
    orphanage, the short flight to the Dominican Republic was
    the start of a new life.

    "A joint convoy (with the United Nations) was organised
    and, thank God, they arrived at the airport today," said
    Spanish Ambassador to the Dominican Republic Maria Jesus
    Figa Lopez-Palop. "We synchronised that a plane would be at
    the airport to pick them up and, well, here we have these
    beautiful girls who have also come and who are Haitian
    girls pending adoption by Spanish parents."
    More than 60 people have died in the poor Caribbean
    country in clashes that began on February 5 when the
    rebels, a collection of gangs and former soldiers, began a
    revolt by overrunning the western city of Gonaives. The
    rebels have warned that an attack on the capital city of
    Port-au-Prince was imminent.


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