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Weekly Report - 15 June 2004
HAITI: Latortue 'wants continuing US presence'
If US legislator Mark Foley is correct, Prime Minister Gérard Latortue does not rate the credibility of the UN peacekeeping force very highly, and would like to retain even a very small contingent of US Marines - and under US command, not that of the UN. On the other hand, Latortue has been saying publicly that he hopes the UN force will have greater success in disarming the population than that enjoyed by the interim force led by the US and France.
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