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(E-092/02)

May 10, 2002

OAS ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL AND 
ST. LUCIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO VISIT HAITI 

The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Luigi R. Einaudi, and the Foreign Minister of St. Lucia and current Chairman of the CARICOM Council on Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR), Senator the Hon. Julian R. Hunte, will travel to Haiti from May 12 to 15, in an effort to narrow remaining differences preventing an electoral accord between the Government and opposition political parties in that country. 

Secretary General Cesar Gaviria declared, “The visit is particularly important in light of the upcoming OAS General Assembly to be held in Barbados in June.”  While in Port au Prince, the team will monitor conditions and assess the initial work of the OAS Special Mission for Strengthening Democracy in Haiti.   

Assistant Secretary General Einaudi and Foreign Minister Hunte will use the opportunity to learn of the work of the three-member Commission of Inquiry into the events of December 17, 2001. The Commission will begin the second phase of its inquiry on May 13, 2002. The Advisory Council on Reparations, which will consider “reparations for organizations and individuals who suffered damages as a direct result of violence of December 17, 2001,” will also begin its work that day.

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