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CARICOM-OAS Mission Report to be Submitted to Government of Haiti in Upcoming Days

  January 11, 2011

The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, said this afternoon that the Report of the technical team of the CARICOM-OAS Electoral Observation Mission on the presidential elections conducted in Haiti will be submitted in the next few days to the Government of President René Préval and the Provisional Electoral Council.

“Our wish was to submit the report to the government of President Préval and the CEP last Sunday, but it was not possible to finish it that day. President Préval shared his wish not to discuss the Report in the midst of commemorations of the first year of the terrible earthquake that affected the entire Haitian country on January 12, 2010. Under these circumstances, and taking into account that the wishes of President Préval are completely justified, we quickly tried to put together a new schedule, and I believe it can take place in the next few days. This was the context in which statements were made by OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin.”

For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.

Reference: E-500/11