Haiti
rejoins Caribbean trade group
AFP
GEORGETOWN
Petroleumworld.com,
06 10 06
Haiti has been officially readmitted to CARICOM
after being kicked out in 2004, according to the
headquarters here of the Caribbean trade and economic
development bloc.
In a statement obtained Thursday, the Caribbean
Community and Common Market also invited Haiti's
new president Rene Preval to participate in the
group's next summit, July 3-6, at St. Kitts and
Nevis.
"As an elected head of state, President Rene
Preval is invited not only to represent Haiti at
the 27th summit of the organization, but also to
speak at its opening," the statement said.
Haiti, with 8.5 million residents, was shut out
of CARICOM the day after former president Jean Bertrand
Aristide resigned under threat of armed rebellion.
CARICOM now welcomes the return of an elected government
in Haiti following presidential elections in February
and legislative ones in April.
The Haitian parliament this week approved the coalition
cabinet of new Prime Minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis,
who has pledged to re-establish the rule of law
in the western hemisphere's poorest country.
CARICOM, created in 1958, groups 15 Caribbean countries.
AFP
06 10 06
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