Haiti

(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.

(Quelle: Jamaica Gleaner) Police Commissioner Francis Forbes says the Jamaican Police Force is willing to assist in the training of Haitian police officers at the Police Academy, once conditions are back to normal in that country. 'We would gladly open our doors to assist in the training of senior police officers,' said Forbes, speaking in his capacity as president of the Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police (ACCP).

(Quelle: BBC) The exiled former President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, has said that he was forced to leave his country. In interviews with US television and news agencies, he said he had been the victim of a 'coup d'etat'. He said he had signed documents relinquishing power because of fears that violence would erupt if he did not comply with the demands of US agents.

(Quelle: UN News) Acting just hours after Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned as President of Haiti, the United Nations Security Council this evening unanimously authorized the immediate deployment of a Multinational Interim Force to the troubled nation. … Adopting a resolution under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, … , the Council mandated the operation to contribute to a secure and stable environment in the country, to facilitate the provision of relief aid to those in need, and to help the Haitian police and the Haitian Coast Guard maintain law and order and protect human rights. The Council decided that the operation would be stationed in Haiti “for a period of not more than three months” while declaring its readiness to establish a follow-on UN stabilization force … .

(Quelle: SZ) Nach wochenlangen Aufständen in Haiti und wachsendem internationalen Druck hat Haitis Staatschef Jean Bertrand Aristide am Sonntag sein Amt niedergelegt und das Land verlassen. Wie französische und US-Diplomaten in der Hauptstadt Port-au-Prince mitteilten, unterzeichnete Aristide am Morgen seine Rücktrittserklärung und setzte sich mit unbekanntem Ziel ab. Der Vorsitzende des Obersten Gerichtshofs, Boniface Alexandre, übernahm gemäß der Verfassung übergangsweise Aristides Posten.