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Weekly Report -18 January 2005
HAITI: Argentina and Brazil guide pressure on Latortue
The South American countries making up most of the UN 'stabilisation' force in Haiti have been showing that their involvement goes beyond providing peacekeepers. Argentina has used its presidency of the UN Security Council to get that body to put political pressure on the Latortue government, while Brazil has got UN endorsement for a plan to disarm the Haitian public through a 'buyback' scheme modelled on its own recently extended one.
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