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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY DENIES RECOGNITION OF HAITI REGIME.

Publication: NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
Publication Date: 01-APR-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders bore up under tremendous pressure to withhold recognition of Haiti's US-installed interim government at a March 27 meeting in St. Kitts. They said they would take the matter up again at a July summit in Granada but wanted a UN investigation of the circumstances of the ouster of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide first (see NotiCen, 2004-03-18).

Calling the discussions "quite tense," Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Manning told reporters, "We can't determine this issue at this meeting."

Other officials said the US pressure was "enormous" to recognize the government it appointed after spiriting Aristide from Haiti on Feb. 29 (see NotiCen, 2004-03-04). "Right now we are not satisfied," St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said. "We are going to watch and see a number of things as they evolve."

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