22782: Fuller: fwd: New UN envoy to Haiti arrives in Port-au-Prince (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Anne Fuller <affuller3@yahoo.com>

New UN envoy to Haiti arrives in Port-au-Prince

UN News Service

24 July 2004 – Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Representative to
Haiti arrived today in the country's capital to take up his work as chief
of the UN peacekeeping operation there.

“This is an important day for cooperation between Haiti and the
international community," Juan Gabriel Valdes told reporters in
Port-au-Prince after meeting with Haitian Prime Minister Gérard Latortue.

Responding to press questions, the envoy said the UN mission, known by the
French acronym MINUSTAH, will support the Government's efforts to restore
stability.

For his part, the Prime Minister welcomed the appointment of Mr. Valdes and
pledged to work with him “hand in hand.”