Caribbean Leaders Withhold Haiti Backing (good news) [View All]

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=589&e=4&u=/ap/20040327/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/caribbean_summit

The 15-nation Caribbean Community withheld recognition from Haiti's U.S.-backed interim government Saturday as leaders closed a summit renewing calls for a U.N. investigation into the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

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Several officials said the regional bloc was under enormous U.S. pressure to recognize the new government, which was appointed after Aristide fled on Feb. 29 amid a popular uprising.


"Right now we are not satisfied," St. Vincent Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said at the close of the two-day summit. "We are going to watch and see a number of things as they evolve."

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They said while Haiti remains a "welcome partner" in the Caribbean Community, "there has been an interruption of the democratic process."
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yes, indeed things are 'evolving'