Peru to host meeting on UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti
February 09, 2007
An international conference on the United Nations' peacekeeping mission in Haiti will begin on Friday, Peru's Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
To be present at the meeting are deputy foreign ministers and deputy defense ministers from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Panama, which contribute troops or personnel to the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
Leading figures, including Chile's Jose Insulza, secretary general of the Organization of American States and Edmond Mulet, UN special representative of the United Nations in Haiti, will attend the conference.
Also on the agenda of the meeting are Haiti's political situation and regional aid offered to boost its economic reconstruction and infrastructure building.
Brazil leads the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), which was put together in 2004, after Jean Bertrand Aristide was ousted as Haiti's president. It contributes 1,200 troops, the largest single contingent, to the 6,700-strong mission.
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