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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