PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: A non government organization of Trinidad and Tobago has called on regional leaders not to recognise Haitian interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue's government.
The Emancipation Support Committee a social and political activist organization, has demanded the restoration of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as Haiti's duly elected, legitimate political leader.
During a news conference at the organization's Maraval headquarters, ESC chairman Khafra Kambon said that any Caribbean government which officially recognizes this regime will, in effect, be repudiating CARICOM?s principled call for an international investigation into the ousting democratically elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide.
Kambon congratulated the Jamaican government for allowing Aristide and his wife to remain there for ten weeks.
ESC chairman said CARICOM must ensure that Aristide be allowed to address the United Nations General Assembly about his forced removal from Haiti, and even be prepared to help Aristide in establishing a government-in-exile some where in the region if it becomes necessary.
He urged CARICOM to pilot a resolution in the UN General Assembly demanding the restoration of Aristide as Haitian President and the removal of all foreign forces from Haiti.
Khafra Kambon stressed that foreign forces in Haiti must be replaced by a genuinely neutral, international peace-keeping force, comprising military contingents from nations which share a common historical, ethnic and/or geographical connection with the nation and people of Haiti.
ESC is the traditional coordinator of the annual Emancipation in the Caribbean celebration, which commemorates the end of slavery in the Caribbean region in 1838.
