Haiti Must Respect International Mission’s Electoral Findings to Avoid Unrest, UN Warns

by Gary Kopycinski on January 20, 2011

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NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–20 January 2011 – Haiti’s electoral council must take full account of an international mission’s findings, reportedly eliminating the Government candidate from the presidential run-off, or face the prospect of considerable unrest, the United Nations peacekeeping chief warned today.

“After a year marked by the devastating earthquake of 12 January 2010, and the ongoing cholera epidemic, it is of paramount importance that the current political crisis is brought to a swift conclusion so that…