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25322: Leiderman: (news) fingerprints and national ID cards: "establishing a modern national civil registry in Haiti" (fwd)
From: Stuart M Leiderman <leidermn@cisunix.unh.edu>
OAS HAILS AGREEMENT TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION OF GENERAL ELECTIONS
IN HAITI
January 17, 2005
UNITED NATIONS
United Nations
Stabilization Mission In Haiti
MINUSTAH
NATIONS UNIES
Mission des Nations Unies pour la Stabilisation en Haïti
PIO/PR/78/2005
PRESS RELEASE
Port-au-Prince, 17 January 2005 ? The Acting Secretary General of the
Organization
of American States (OAS), Ambassador Luigi R. Einaudi, welcomed the signing,
in
Port-au-Prince on Monday, January 10, of a $US44 million global agreement as
part
of a project to support the organization of general elections in Haiti in
2005. The
agreement was signed by the Haitian Government, the Provisional Electoral
Council
(CEP), the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), and the
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Ambassador Einaudi underscored ?the strong collaboration among his
organization, the
United Nations, the CEP, and the Haitian Government, as well as the other
partners in
the international community, whose combined efforts were a vital asset for
the electoral
process.? A protocol of understanding, signed on November 3 by the OAS and
United Nations, established the respective responsibilities of the two
organizations as
well as measures for cooperation and coordination between them, in support
of the
CEP?s efforts to organize and hold free and fair elections. The OAS will be
in charge
of providing all technical support for voter registration with a view, in
the long term, to
establishing a modern national civil registry system in Haiti.
The Chief of MINUSTAH, Juan Gabriel Valdes, went to Washington on Tuesday,
January 11, to confer with the Acting Secretary General, Mr. Einaudi, and
the Chief of
the OAS Special Mission in Haiti, Ambassador Denneth Modeste, and to share
with
the Permanent Council his principal observations on developments in the
situation in
Haiti. The OAS member countries commended MINUSTAH for its efforts, and
several representatives emphasized the importance of holding ?inclusive
elections open
to all political parties in order to strengthen democracy in Haiti.?
******************
For additional info, please contact MINUSTAH?s Office of Communication and
Public Information at
tel.: (509) 510-2563 ext.: 6343 or 510- 3183/84/85 ext.: 6037- 6034-6035
or consult MINUSTAH?s website at http://www.minustah.org.
Reference: HA-01-17E