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28087: Craig (news) HAITI: SPAIN TO EXIT U.N. PEACEKEEPING MISSION (fwd)





From: Dan Craig


HAITI: SPAIN TO EXIT U.N. PEACEKEEPING MISSION Spain will pull out of the United Nations peacekeeping mission despite a request that its forces stay until Haiti finishes its stalled electoral process, David Wimhurst, a spokesman for the mission, said, calling the move "an internal political decision" by the Spanish government. He said Spain's 200 troops in northeast Haiti would be replaced by Uruguayan soldiers already in the country. Spain said last year that it would reconsider its participation in the 9,000-member peacekeeping force unless international donors complied with pledges to finance reconstruction. Haiti so far has received only slightly more than half of the $1 billion pledged. (AP)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/10/international/10briefs.html