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

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

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