1. Aristide's Foes Rule Out Plan To Share Power.
- Author
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Marquis, Christopher
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PEACEKEEPING forces , *INTERNATIONAL police , *CIVIL war , *INSURGENCY ,HAITIAN politics & government - Abstract
Reports on the rejection of an American-drafted proposal for a power-sharing arrangement between Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his opposition. Call for the resignation of Aristide by Maurice Lafortune, president of the Haitian Chamber of Commerce; Details of the rejected plan; Offers by Canada and France to send police officers to Haiti in the context of a political settlement; Questioning of the State Department's man on this issue, Roger F. Noreiga; Congressional attitudes over American involvement in the region; Urging of Human Rights Watch for the international community to send a peacekeeping force to Haiti; Probability of food shortages as law and order disintegrate.
- Published
- 2004