FRANCE DEMANDS EXPLANATION FOR THE U.S. OCCUPATION OF HAITI
JAN 19 2010
France is demanding the United Nations investigate and clarify
the dominant US role in Haiti, after Washington deployed over 10,000 troops to
the quake-hit country.
The demand came after US forces turned back a French aid
plane carrying a field hospital from the main airport in the Haitian
capital.
The Pentagon says it has deployed soldiers in Haiti to help victims of
Tuesday's earthquake. This comes as US paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne
Division took control of the main airport in the capital Port-au-Prince on
Friday.
The move has raised ire among aid agencies with extensive experience of
operating in disaster zones.
"This is about helping Haiti, not about occupying Haiti," France's Cooperation
Minister Alain Joyandet said in an emergency EU meeting concerning Haiti on
Monday.
He added that he expects a UN decision on how governments should work together
in Haiti, while demanding a clarification of the United States' role in the
Caribbean nation.
Joyandet's remarks echo those made by Venezuela
and Nicaragua that expressed "deep concern" over
the US deployment of troops in Haiti.
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton whose country is also blamed for not
being quick enough to send aid to the quake-hit nation has denied the
occupation charges, stressing on Saturday that the White House had no
intention of taking power from Haitian officials.
The US has been accused of interfering in Haitian internal affairs in the
past.
The US military played a role in the departure of the former President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide before his second term was over in early 2004. Aristide
has described his departure as a kidnapping.
Last week's 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti is estimated to have left some
200,000 people dead and more than 1.5 million homeless, with at least 70,000
bodies collected from the rubble so far.
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