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Uruguay to pull peacekeepers from Haiti
Uruguay to pull peacekeepers from Haiti
Agence France-PresseOctober 29, 2013 17:53
Uruguay's President Jose Mujica said Tuesday he plans to withdraw his country's peacekeeping troops from Haiti because of the lack of democratic progress there.
Mujica noted delays in convening Senate elections and a general "political impasse in Haitian society."
"They were supposed to have called elections to the Senate a while ago. We see it going very slowly, we see nothing happening," he said on the Telenoche de Uruguay news program.
"One thing is to try to help the Haitian people build a police force that is in charge of security. That's fine.
More:
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/131029/uruguay-pull-peacekeepers-haiti
