Haiti

(Quelle: UN News) United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said the Security Council was responsible for deciding whether there should be an investigation of how President Jean-Bertrand Aristide came to leave Haiti. 'This is an issue that the Council will have to discuss and determine whether it takes it up or not, because the Council acted on the assumption that the President had resigned and they had a letter of resignation before them,' he said as he entered UN Headquarters, replying to a question on calls for a probe from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the African Union (AU).

(Quelle: NZZ) Neuer Regierungschef in Haiti wird der ehemalige Außenminister und UNO-Diplomat Gerard Latortue. Der in Florida lebende Exilhaitianer nahm am Dienstag die Berufung durch einen «Rat der Weisen» an. … Zur Stabilisierung der nach wie vor gespannten Lage plant die haitianische Polizei mit Unterstützung der 1600 nach Haiti geschickten amerikanischen Marineinfanteristen eine umfassende Entwaffnung der Bevölkerung.

(Quelle: Washington Post) At least four demonstrators and a foreign journalist were killed by gunfire Sunday at a protest to demand that ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide be tried for corruption and fomenting violence. Witnesses said Aristide supporters had caused the violence, but that could not be confirmed.

(Quelle: Globe & Mail) In his first press conference in exile, Jean-Bertrand Aristide insisted Monday he was still president of Haiti and called for “peaceful resistance” against what he called the “occupation” of his homeland.

(Quelle: UN News) A United Nations multi-disciplinary team is scheduled to start arriving in Haiti tomorrow to assess what is needed for the stabilization force that the Security Council wants deployed within three months in the volatile Caribbean country, a UN spokesman said today.

(Quelle: Globe & Mail) Canada will spend $38-million to send 450 military personnel to Haiti as part of an international force that Prime Minister Paul Martin promised will not abandon the troubled country. … He said the Canadian commitment will continue beyond a stabilization force, and could include money and personnel for policing, reconstruction and development.

(Quelle: Independent) South Africa added its voice last night to a growing international chorus questioning the circumstances surrounding Jean-Bertrand Aristide's departure from Haiti and demanded an investigation into allegations that the US forcibly removed a democratically elected president from office.

(Quelle: Welt) Der haitianische Ministerpräsident Yvon Neptune hat am Mittwoch den Notstand für den Karibikstaat ausgerufen. Rebellenführer Guy Philippe, der die Festnahme Neptunes gefordert hatte, kündigte die Entwaffnung seiner Kämpfer an. … Die karibische Staatengemeinschaft CARICOM wird sich nicht an der UN-Schutztruppe für Haiti beteiligen. Die 15 Staaten umfassende Gemeinschaft protestiere damit gegen die Umstände, wie Aristide aus dem Amt getrieben wurde, erklärte der jamaikanische Ministerpräsident P.J. Patterson am Mittwoch nach einer Krisensitzung in Jamaika.

(Quelle: Jamaica Observer) Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders will resume their talks on the Haiti situation today, but it appeared last night that they were attempting to fashion a response to the overthrow of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in concert with South Africa, … . ... it was being surmised last night that the South Africans were being asked not only to provide an exile home for Aristide, but to make common cause with Caricom in responding to what regional leaders stopped just short of branding as a coup d'etat against Haiti's elected leader.

(Quelle: Deutsche Welle) Nach der Flucht von Aristide wächst in Haiti die Hoffnung auf eine Beruhigung der Lage. Die USA und Frankreich weisen Vorwürfe zurück, der Ex-Präsident sei entführt worden. … US-Verteidigungsminister Donald Rumsfeld rechnet mit der Entsendung von etwa 5000 internationalen Soldaten zur Stabilisierung der Lage in Haiti. Davon würden etwa 1500 bis 2000 Soldaten aus den USA kommen, sagte der Minister am Montag. Zur Zeit seien bereits 'einige Hundert' US-Soldaten in Haiti. Frankreich hat derzeit 50 Soldaten in Haiti stationiert, bis zu 300 sollen es werden.