The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday named former U.S. President Bill Clinton to be his special envoy to Haiti.
Mr. Ban said the former president would work on bringing long-term stability and aid to the poverty-stricken nation.
Mr. Clinton and Mr. Ban traveled to Haiti in March to refocus international attention on restoring economic security to the Caribbean country.
Haiti is the Western Hemisphere's poorest country. It is struggling to recover from four successive storms last year that killed hundreds of people and wiped out about 15 percent of its economic output.
In April, Haiti won $324 million in new aid commitments from international donors for the next two years.
The Inter-American Development Bank announced the aid after hosting a donors conference for Haiti in Washington. The bank said the money pledged includes $41 million in budget support for 2009.
