HAITI: UN. SECURITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES MEET WITH HAITIAN PRIME MINISTER GERARD LATORTUE IN PETION-VILLE
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HAITI: UN. SECURITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES MEET WITH HAITIAN PRIME MINISTER GERARD LATORTUE IN PETION-VILLE
- Title: HAITI: UN. SECURITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES MEET WITH HAITIAN PRIME MINISTER GERARD LATORTUE IN PETION-VILLE
- Date: 14th April 2005
- Summary: PETION-VILLE, HAITI (APRIL 14, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. EXTERIOR OF PRIME MINISTERS OFFICE 0.03 2. WIDE OF UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND HAITIAN OFFICIALS IN MEETING 0.07 3. HAITIAN PRIME MINISTER GERARD LATORTUE 0.11 4. LATORTUE WITH UN AND HAITIAN OFFICIALS AFTER MEETING 0.15 5. LATORTUE SHAKING HANDS 0.21 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) HAITIAN PRIME MINISTER GERARD LATORTUE, SAYING: "The meeting was great, you know? And we have all the members of the Security Council here with us to review the cooperation between Haiti and MINUSTAH (U.N. mission in Haiti) and they came to bring their support the government to encourage us to go with the elections, to make sure that they will be free, democratic and transparent and they just realized this our personal position." 0.47 7. MEMBERS OF SECURITY COUNCIL 0.50 8. LATORTUE SMILING 0.53 9. (SOUNDBITE) (French) AMBASSADOR TO THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL RONALDO MOTA SARDENBERG, BRAZIL'S PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE, SAYING: "We are in agreement that the opinions of the Haitian government should be taken into account in the process of designing the new resolution." 1.06 10. LATORTUE AND SARDENBERG SHAKE HANDS 1.09 11. EXTERIOR OF PRIME MINISTERS OFFICE WITH DEMONSTRATORS 1.13 12. DEMONSTRATORS SINGING (HAITIAN CREOLE): "Latortue has to go!" 1.17 13. (SOUNDBITE) (Creole) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN SAYING: "We don't have any place to sleep. We have all these kids to care for! We don't know where to turn!" 1.27 14. HAITIAN POLICEMAN KEEPS DEMONSTRATORS BACK 1.33 PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (APRIL 14, 2005) (REUTERS) 15. PAN: TRUCK FULL OF BRAZILIAN UN PEACEKEEPERS GOES BY 1.40 16. WS: LINE OF PEACEKEEPERS WITH GUNS WAIT FOR DEMONSTRATION 1.42 17. PEACEKEEPERS WITH GUNS 1.45 18. DEMONSTRATOR WITH JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE POSTER 1.49 19. LV: DEMONSTRATORS COMING 1.53 20. DEMONSTRATORS 1.57 21. CLOSE OF UN SOLDIERS AS DEMONSTRATORS PASS 2.01 22. DEMONSTRATORS SHOUT "LONG LIVE ARISTIDE!" AS THEY PASS JORDANIAN PEACEKEEPERS 2.05 23. DEMONSTRATORS 2.14 24. WS: DEMONSTRATORS MOVING PAST PEACEKEEPERS 2.17 25. (SOUNDBITE) (Haitian Creole) UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTER SAYING: "I am here because I can't go to school! I don't have work! We want Latortue out!" 2.25 26. DEMONSTRATORS 2.28 27. CU: FINGER POINTS TO ARISTIDE STICKER AND VOICE SAYS "LONG LIVE ARISTIDE!" 2.31 28. PEACEKEEPERS GUARD UN HQ 2.33 29. PAN: UN JEEPS GO BY 2.39 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: PETION-VILLE AND PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
- Country: Haiti
- Reuters ID: LVA90WIKWN8CPN9ZC7JPVDQ3ERYH
- Story Text: UN Security Council representatives meet with
Haitian Prime Minister Gerard Latortue.
A 15-member U.N. Security Council delegation
continued its visit to Haiti on Thusday (April 14) with a
long meeeting with Haitian Prime Minister Gerard Latortue
and members of his government.
During the meeting the Security Council members stressed
the importance of holding national elections planned for
next fall on schedule. Recently, many have
expressed fears that the elections might have to be delayed
due to security problems and also because one of the
country's major parties, the Lavalas Family which is headed
by former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, has so far
boycotted the planning.
Latortue was positive about the meeting.
"The meeting was great, you know?" he said. "And we
have all the members of the Security Council here with us
to review the cooperation between Haiti and MINUSTAH (U.N.
mission in Haiti) and they came to bring their support the
government to encourage us to go with the elections, to
make sure that they will be free, democratic and
transparent and they just realized this our personal
position."
Ambassador to the UN Security Council Ronaldo Mota
Sardenberg, Brazil's Permanent Representative, who is
heading the ten-member delegation, also said the meeting
was positive. He also promised that the Council will be
taking into account everything that it is learning when it
reconsidered the peacekeepers' mandate next month.
"We are in agreement that the opinions of the Haitian
government should be taken into account in the process of
designing the new resolution," he said.
But outside the Prime Minister's office, a group of
about 20-30 protestors said that they are not satisfied
with Latortue's government. They said they were from Cite
Soleil, a slum where brutal gang battles between
pro-Aristide and anti-Aristide gangs. They said their homes
were burned that that so far Latortue and his government
have not kept their promises to get new homes for them.
"We don't have any place to sleep. We have all these
kids to care for! We don't know where to turn!" one lady
screamed.
A much bigger group of demonstrators marched from
another strife-ridden neighborhood and demonstrated outside
UN peacekeeping headquarters.
Carrying posters of Aristide and singing songs
demanding Latortue step down and that elections be
cancelled, demonstrators said that the Lavalas party would
not run candidates in any races unless Aristide is returned
to power.
He was ousted on Feb. 29, 2004, after allegedly
fradulent 2000 elections led to what eventually became a
broad-based anti-government movement. An armed rebellion in
February, 2004, sealed Aristide's fate and he left on a
US-chartered airplane. He claims he was overthrown in a
US-supported coup d'tat.
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