28808: (news) Chamberlain: Annan delays visit to Haiti due to aircraft woes (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Greg Chamberlain <GregChamberlain@compuserve.com>

     UNITED NATIONS, Aug 2 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan
delayed a visit to Haiti on Wednesday after the commercial aircraft he was
to use experienced technical difficulties, the United Nations said.
     "His trip has been postponed for a day," U.N. spokeswoman Marie Okabe
said. "He plans to still go to Haiti tomorrow."
     The United Nations has had a peacekeeping mission in Haiti since June
2004. It was sent to support the interim government formed after President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled into exile under international pressure.
     Annan is to meet with new Haitian President Rene Preval and other top
officials before traveling to the Dominican Republic to meet with President
Leonel Fernandez.