{"id":421912,"date":"2010-03-12T14:21:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T19:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.senatedem.ilga.gov\/index.php\/sen-raoul-home\/806-raoul-meets-with-haitis-president-at-the-white-house"},"modified":"2010-03-12T14:21:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T19:21:12","slug":"raoul-meets-with-haiti%e2%80%99s-president-at-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/421912","title":{"rendered":"Raoul Meets with Haiti\u2019s President at the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><?xml:namespace prefix = st1><br \/>\n<st1:city><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.senatedem.ilga.gov\/images\/stories\/2010\/raoul-031210br0134-031210.jpg\" \/>Springfield<\/strong><\/st1:city><strong>,<br \/>\n<st1:state>IL<\/st1:state><\/strong>\u2014Haitian-American State Sen. Kwame Raoul took time away from his work in<br \/>\n<st1:city><br \/>\n<st1:place>Springfield<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> this week to meet with a delegation of Haitian officials at the White House at the invitation of his predecessor President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting came amidst<br \/>\n<st1:country-region><br \/>\n<st1:place>U.S.<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> efforts to commit further direct aid efforts including debt relief of the damaged nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an honor to discuss<br \/>\n<st1:country-region><br \/>\n<st1:place>Haiti<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>\u2019s challenges with President Ren\u00e9 Pr\u00e9val despite the circumstances,\u201d said Raoul. \u201cPresident Pr\u00e9val has requested the help of Americans as he seeks to provide an adequate life for the Haitian people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Springfield, IL\u2014Haitian-American State Sen. Kwame Raoul took time away from his work in Springfield this week to meet with a delegation of Haitian officials at the White House at the invitation of his predecessor President Barack Obama. The meeting came amidst U.S. efforts to commit further direct aid efforts including debt relief of the damaged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}