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Caribbean Nations Denounce "Removal"

Submitted March 1, 2004 - 4:18 pm by Al Giordano
The organization known as CARICOM - for "Caribbean Community" of nations - has just denounced Aristide's "removal," according to this United Press International report:

KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 1 (UPI) -- The Caribbean Community federation denounced the "removal" of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and held an emergency meeting Monday in Jamaica.

A statement from the group known as CARICOM was issued by Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, who said international pressure on Aristide to flee to the Central African Republic was "a dangerous precedent," the Jamaica Gleaner reported...

"We are bound to question whether his resignation was truly voluntary... The removal of President Aristide in these circumstances sets a dangerous precedent for democratically elected governments anywhere and everywhere, as it promotes the removal of duly elected persons from office by the power of rebel forces."

Patterson said CARICOM had a standing position that the removal of the constitutionally-elected president by unconstitutional means could not be supported by the group.

NOTE: Caribbean nations make up a significant bloc inside the Organization of American States. Not counting Haiti, these other nations count 12 of 34 member states.

Paging Lula, Hugo, and Nestor!

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