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seemslikeadream

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Mon Mar-01-04 03:38 PM
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Emergency Haiti summit tomorrow

Caricom leaders say Aristide's ovethrow dangerous precedent

Monday, March 01, 2004

Last night, Prime Minister P J Patterson, the community's current chairman, said that the ousting of Aristide set a "dangerous precedent" for the removal of democratically-elected governments, and the 15 member group appeared on a collision course with the United States at the United Nations over the santioning of a peace-keeping force for Haiti.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20040301T000000-0500_56429_OBS_EMERGENCY_HAITI_SUMMIT_TOMORROW.asp

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Chicago Democrat

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Mon Mar-01-04 03:48 PM
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1. Hurrah! What's Caricom?

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maxsolomon

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Mon Mar-01-04 03:50 PM
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2. CARIbbean COMmittee for

ok, i don't know.

carribbean government meet-up i assume.

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seemslikeadream

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Mon Mar-01-04 03:51 PM
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3. Caribbean Community

Edited on Mon Mar-01-04 03:52 PM by seemslikeadream

The United States, Canada and France initially supported the Caricom plan but backed away from it and put pressure on Aritide to resign.

you could read the article

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