Prime Minister P J Patterson warned yesterday that the Caribbean Community (Caricom) would not sanction any resolution of Haiti's political crisis that was predicated on the resignation of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide...
News Source: Jamaica Observer
The Jamaican leader, who is chairman of the 15-member Caricom, argued that such a course would be "to set a dangerous precedent for constitutional governance and democratic process" and was "contrary to our (Caricom) already articulated position".
A troika of Western nations - the United States, Canada and France - have been increasingly putting pressure on Aristide to resign, as being demanded by the Haitian Opposition, as part of a plan to end an armed rebellion in the country, being led by a former coup plotter and the head of a right-wing death squad that killed hundreds of Aristide supporters in the 1990s.
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