a911: The importance of Dr. Georges Fauriol, Leader of recent IRIdelegation to Haiti (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: kevin pina <kpinbox@hotmail.com>

To further bolster my argument for the importance of understanding the
background and institutional affiliations of Dr. Fauriol, who led the recent
IRI delegation to Haiti, is the following report from the Center for
International Strategic Studies. One glance will confirm that he has had and
will continue to have great influence over US foreign policy towards Haiti.

June 25, 2001

POLICY TOWARD HAITI
Report: Increase U.S. Support after Political Stalemate Breaks

Searching for Haiti Policy:
The Next Ninety Days

(Hemisphere Focus, CSIS, 2001)

Georges A. Fauriol, director, CSIS Americas Program

http://www.csis.org/americas/
pubs/

WASHINGTON, June 25, 2001 — International aid to Haiti should be withheld
until the country's leadership "works out a real political arrangement with
the various elements of the democratic alternative and key groups
representing civil society," according to a new CSIS report.

In Searching for Haiti Policy: The Next Ninety Days (CSIS, 2001), Georges A.
Fauriol, director of the CSIS Americas Program, writes that conditions in
Haiti could deteriorate by the fall. Fauriol recommends that the United
States:

Decline to offer political support or economic and diplomatic resources
unless there is a wider and transparent compromise among the key players in
the Haitian political stalemate. "The United States should be viewed as
working with the underdog, the weak, the entrepreneurial, and Haiti's
regional and local leadership, not with the representatives of a corrupt new
elite occupying positions of power in government and the influence peddlers
who flow from it," Fauriol writes.
Engage and strengthen "Haiti's true supporters of democracy and freedom."
Revitalize an international coalition to address Haiti's political
situation.

Fauriol also recommends that Haiti reconstitute a credible electoral council
and conduct a partial repeat of senate elections. "A defining characteristic
of this process would be for Haitian authorities to provide moral and
political leadership, as opposed to the threatening agitation of populist
rhetoric," Fauriol writes.

"The United States' relationship with Haiti needs to break out from the
costly and unproductive policy thrust of the past eight years," Fauriol
writes. "The arrival of the Bush administration should enable Washington to
start fresh, yet so far it has not really done so."

As the director of the CSIS Americas Program, Fauriol is the senior scholar
specializing in Western Hemisphere issues. He is also cochair of the
Americas Forum, a Washington network of hemispheric policy professionals.
Prior to joining CSIS, Fauriol worked at the Foreign Policy Research
Institute, the U.S. Information Agency, and the Inter-American Development
Bank.



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