Haiti's Preval to meet with Bush
posted on: Thu, 9 Mar 2006
PORT-AU-PRINCE, March 9, 2006 (AFP) -
Haitian president-elect Rene Preval announced Thursday he would travel to the United States this month to meet with US President George W.
Bush.
Meanwhile, the head of the Provisional Electoral Council said a second round of legislative elections, originally scheduled for March 19, will likely take place on April 23.
The delay could postpone's Preval's March 29 inauguration, because the constitution calls for the swearing in to take place before parliament.
Preval will visit the United States March 27-28 to meet with Bush and officials from the Organization of American States, World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
He will also visit the United Nations in New York.
Preval, who was elected in the first round of February's presidential election, departed Thursday on a South American tour to Brazil, Chile and Argentina.
Brazil heads the UN Stabilization Mission (MINUSTAH) that was sent to Haiti after then president Jean Bertrand Aristide fled amid an uprising in February 2004.
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