15195: Nadal: Re: International Community' s Mission to Haiti. (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

>From Olivier Nadal : o_nadal@bellsouth.net


Media Note
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
March 19, 2003


Delegation from the Organization of American States and the Caribbean
Community
Council to Visit Haiti

For Immediate Release


  The President s Envoy for Western Hemisphere Initiatives Ambassador Otto
J.
  Reich, Senator Julian Hunte, the Foreign Minister of St. Lucia and
chairman of
  the Caribbean Community Council, and the Organization of American States
  Assistant Secretary General Luigi R. Einaudi will lead a delegation to
Haiti,
  March 19-20, to urge Haiti s government, opposition and civil society to
  resolve the country s political crisis by immediately implementing
Organization
  of American States Resolution No. 822.

  Other members from the international community include the chairman of the
  Organization of American States Permanent Council, senior representatives
from
  Argentina, the Bahamas, Canada, the European Union, France, and Mexico.
  Representatives of the Inter-American Development Bank, International
Monetary
  Fund and World Bank will be present as observers.

  The delegation will urge the parties to Haiti s political crisis to
implement
  Organization of American States Resolution 822, including concrete steps
by the
  Government of Haiti to restore security and human rights so as to lay the
  groundwork for free and fair elections in 2003.  Implementing these steps
will
  encourage all sides to participate in an independent electoral council to
  oversee elections.  The delegation will also urge opposition parties and
civil
  society to respond to these measures by the Government of Haiti by joining
the
  electoral council and participating in a peaceful, electoral solution to
the
  political crisis in Haiti.

   The delegation will meet with President Aristide and other government
  officials, leaders of opposition parties and civil society, as well as
with the
  diplomatic representatives of the international community in Haiti.





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