Haiti: US urges Jean-Bertrand Aristide to delay return (BBC)

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

14 March 2011 Last updated at 23:35 GMT

Haiti: US urges Jean-Bertrand Aristide to delay return

The US has urged Haiti's former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide to delay his return from exile until after presidential elections on 20 March.

A State Department spokesman said it was up to Haiti to decide whether the former leader should be allowed home.

But he said a return before the election could be "destabilising".

A spokesman for Mr Aristide said last Friday that he would return from South Africa "in a few days" but insisted the move was not related to the vote.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12740295

[mitchtv]

1. But Baby Doc can return

interesting