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15195: Nadal: Re: International Community' s Mission to Haiti. (fwd)
>From Olivier Nadal : o_nadal@bellsouth.net
Media Note
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
March 19, 2003
Delegation from the Organization of American States and the Caribbean
Community
Council to Visit Haiti
For Immediate Release
The President s Envoy for Western Hemisphere Initiatives Ambassador Otto
J.
Reich, Senator Julian Hunte, the Foreign Minister of St. Lucia and
chairman of
the Caribbean Community Council, and the Organization of American States
Assistant Secretary General Luigi R. Einaudi will lead a delegation to
Haiti,
March 19-20, to urge Haiti s government, opposition and civil society to
resolve the country s political crisis by immediately implementing
Organization
of American States Resolution No. 822.
Other members from the international community include the chairman of the
Organization of American States Permanent Council, senior representatives
from
Argentina, the Bahamas, Canada, the European Union, France, and Mexico.
Representatives of the Inter-American Development Bank, International
Monetary
Fund and World Bank will be present as observers.
The delegation will urge the parties to Haiti s political crisis to
implement
Organization of American States Resolution 822, including concrete steps
by the
Government of Haiti to restore security and human rights so as to lay the
groundwork for free and fair elections in 2003. Implementing these steps
will
encourage all sides to participate in an independent electoral council to
oversee elections. The delegation will also urge opposition parties and
civil
society to respond to these measures by the Government of Haiti by joining
the
electoral council and participating in a peaceful, electoral solution to
the
political crisis in Haiti.
The delegation will meet with President Aristide and other government
officials, leaders of opposition parties and civil society, as well as
with the
diplomatic representatives of the international community in Haiti.
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