a1432: President promises "different" negotiations (Metropole) (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: MKarshan@aol.com

Haiti: President promises "different" negotiations over political crisis
BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom; Mar 20, 2002



Text of report from the Morning Newscast by Haitian Metropole radio on 18
March

[Announcer] President Jean-Bertrand Aristide talked about the seriousness of
the political crisis that deserves to be resolved without delay. The head of
state anticipates a solution to the crisis while affirming that the next
round of negotiations will be different. Aristide made that statement in the
presence of former Prime Minister Jean-Marie Cherestal and the diplomatic
corps. He asked for the confidence of the various political players. Aristide
spoke as follows:

[Aristide recording] Let us encourage all those who are prompted by this same
spirit, and let us hope that our brothers of the opposition whenever that
meeting might take place wherever that may be by this gesture, which is not
cosmetic but patriotic. I want you all to applaud in advance that moment,
which we believe is not long in coming, that moment where we and our
opposition brothers can gather together around the dialogue table. If you are
thirsty for that time then clap your hands. [Applause]. In order for the
state to give you good service, I must go through the crossroads of the
solution of the crisis. In order for the state to be able to construct more
roads, more school buildings, create more health centres, give more security,
more peace and happiness, then I must pass through the crossroads of the
solution of the crisis. And it is with determination that we are going to go
through there to prepare the celebration of our bicentennial. It is with
determination that I allow myself to say to all of you who had or may still
have doubts to remember those famous words of Philosopher Eutyches of Ephesus
when he said: We can never bathe twice in the same river. //All negotiations
are negotiations, but all negotiations are not the same. All dialogues are
dialogues, but all dialogues are not the same.// [Passage in slantlines in
Creole] The dialogue that is to come, the negotiations that are to take place
will certainly be different because it is the patriotic impulse that is
pushing us to make those negotiations another reality that is different from
what we have known so far. [End of recording]

Source: Radio Metropole, Port-au-Prince, in French 1145 gmt 18 Mar 02

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