HAITI : HAITI SECURE ENOUGH TO HAND OVER TO THE UN PEACEKEEPING TROOPS

Record ID: 350278

  • Title: HAITI : HAITI SECURE ENOUGH TO HAND OVER TO THE UN PEACEKEEPING TROOPS
  • Date: 29th March 1995
  • Summary: PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI (MARCH 29-30, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) (MARCH 29) 1. SV EXTERIOR OF BUILDING 0.03 2. SV INTERIOR BUILDING, HAITIAN PRESIDENT JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE WALKING TO TABLE 0.16 3. SCU ARISTIDE SAYING HE IS CONFIDENT THERE WILL BE SUFFICIENT SECURITY FOR THE UPCOMING VISIT BY UNITED STATES (U.S.)
  • Embargoed: 13th April 1995 13:00
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  • Location: PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
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  • Country: Haiti CARIBBEAN
  • Reuters ID: LVA1MM55ZIRRN6OXKDXRT4F83K35
  • Story Text: Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said on Wednesday (March 29) he felt Haiti was secure enough for the transfer of peacekeeping duties to a United Nations (U.N.) force.

    But he reiterated his call for stronger efforts to disarm criminals, including former members of the paramilitary groups that had supported the military junta.

    His comments followed the assassination of lawyer Mireille Durocher Bertin, 34, and a client while driving along one of Port-au-Prince's busiest roads in broad daylight.

    Durocher Bertin was a senior figure in the military regime General Raoul Cedras, which was toppled by a United States-led (U.S.) intervention in September last year to restore the elected President Aristide.

    The killing came three days before the U.S.-led force hands over responsibility for Haitian security to 6,900 U.N.

    peacekeepers.

    The U.S. condemned the assassination and said the violence should not deter Haiti's reforms.

    The handover will be witnessed by U.S. President Bill Clinton and the U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. A major security operation was underway ahead of their arrival on Friday (March 31), as Haitians also cleaned up the capital.

    U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's staff arrived in Haiti on Thursday (March 30) followed by U.N. troops from Bangladesh.

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