Caribbean foreign ministers to visit Haiti Tuesday
Monday, July 12, 2004
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): Five Caribbean
foreign ministers are traveling to Haiti to meet with representatives of the
US-backed interim administration on Tuesday, Guyana's Director General of
Foreign Affairs, Elizabeth Harper, said Saturday.
Foreign ministers Rudy Insanally of Guyana, Billie Miller of Barbados,
Knowlson Gift of Trinidad and Tobago, Fred Mitchell of the Bahamas and Antigua
and Barbuda's Harold Lovell will make up the team.
The foreign ministers' trip was mandated by the Caribbean Community (Caricom)
to explore how Haiti could again be allowed to participate in the group's
ministerial councils. The group said it also
wants to explore how it can participate in UN efforts to help rebuild Haiti, a
poverty-stricken former French colony of at least eight million people.
After the one-day fact-finding mission in Haiti, they will report to a select
group of leaders, who will make recommendations to the heads of government on
how to proceed. Caricom has refused to
recognize the administration of Prime Minister Gerard Latortue following the
controversial departure of ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide on February
29.
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