HAITI: BRAZILIAN ENVOY ARRIVES IN HAITI TO EVALUATE THE VOLATILE POLITICAL SITUATION

Record ID: 647874

  • Title: HAITI: BRAZILIAN ENVOY ARRIVES IN HAITI TO EVALUATE THE VOLATILE POLITICAL SITUATION
  • Date: 8th November 2004
  • Summary: (W1) PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (NOVEMBER 08, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. GV OF PORT-AU-PRINCE 0.04 2. SV/SLVV OF BRAZILIAN PEACEKEEPERS AT ROADBLOCK (4 SHOTS) 0.22 3. SLV OF BRAZILIAN U.N. CAMP 0.25 4. SV BRAZILIAN SPECIAL ENVOY TO HAITI PROFESSOR MARCO AURELIO GARCIA ARRIVING AT THE BRAZILIAN U.N. CAMP 0.33 5. SV MEDIA 0.36 6. MCU (Spanish) BRAZILIAN SPECIAL ENVOY TO HAITI, PROFESSOR MARCO AURELIO GARCIA, SAYING: "It is necessary to step up economic and social measures because we believe the risk of deterioration of bout could compromise the election plans for next year." 1.01 7. SV MEDIA 1.04 8. MCU (Spanish) GARCIA SAYING: "I think it would be fundamental that the international community and public opinion and our own continent [referring to South America] would understand the unique situation we are holding in our hands to help Haiti find its destiny." 1.20 9. SV/SLV OF FOOD DISTRIBUTION IN THE PORT-AU-PRINCE SLUM OF "CITIE SOLEIL" BY BRAZILIAN U.N. PEACEKEEPERS (9 SHOTS) 1.54 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 23rd November 2004 12:00
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  • Location: PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
  • Country: Haiti
  • Reuters ID: LVA121908EANGDNWWIUISQZ7ZMAO
  • Story Text: Brazilian envoy arrives in Haiti to evaluate the
    volatile political situation.




    A top Brazilian diplomat arrived in Haiti on Monday
    (November 8) to evaluate the volatile situation in the
    country and help form some sort of rescue plan.

    The Brazilian government dispatched Marco Aurelio
    Garcia, the top foreign affairs advisor to Brazilian
    President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, after a two-day summit
    of Latin American leaders last week addressed Haiti's
    political violence and poverty.

    Latin American and Caribbean nations at the "Group of
    Rio" summit vowed to work together to end coups and
    rebellions that have plagued their hemisphere's poorest
    country.

    Brazil offered to lead the U.N. force on condition it
    got international support to rebuild Haiti. It has
    repeatedly asked for more troops and humanitarian support
    to carry out the job.

    Group of Rio nations called on U.N. donors to deliver
    $1.2 billion in promised aid to rebuild Haiti and 6,700
    troops and 1,800 police authorized for the U.N. force.

    The force now numbers around 3,000 soldiers but Brazil
    expects it to increase to up to 5,700 soldiers within
    weeks.

    Garcia visited with Brazilian United Nations
    peacekeepers and said the situation needs to improve.

    "It is necessary to step up economic and social
    measures because we believe the risk of deterioration of
    bout could compromise the election plans for next year," he
    said.

    Garcia is in charge of organising a fact-finding
    mission in Haiti and then reporting back to the 19-country
    Rio Group.

    "I think it would be fundamental that the international
    community and public opinion and our own continent
    [referring to South America] would understand the unique
    situation we are holding in our hands to help Haiti find
    its destiny," he said.

    Meanwhile, Brazil will set up regular contact with
    former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to help
    stabilize the Caribbean nation beset by civil unrest and
    killings, Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said on Friday
    (November 05).

    A Brazilian envoy will visit Aristide in South Africa,
    where he took up exile after a bloody February revolt, and
    brief him on Latin American efforts to bring the country's
    warring political factions together.

    The overture came as Latin American nations push
    Haiti's interim government to reach a political truce and
    stem a wave of violence that threatens a Brazilian-led U.N.

    peacekeeping mission.

    Aristide supporters blame the interim government for
    recent violence. The government blames Aristide for
    inciting demonstrations from South Africa. As Aristide
    remains a political figure in Haiti, Brazil believes it is
    necessary to involve the former Roman Catholic priest in
    discussions it is trying to broker.



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