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SHARON HAYE-WEBSTER, Member of Parliament for South Central St. Catherine, has been sent to the Central African Republic by the Government to escort exiled Haitian President, Jean Bertrand-Aristide to the island, Foreign Affairs Minister K.D. Knight told The Sunday Gleaner yesterday.
Earlier an Associated Press report from Bangui, Central African Republic, said an envoy of JamaicanPrime Minister P.J. Patterson was due to arrive in Central African Republic today to take Mr. Aristide to Jamaica, his first trip back to the Caribbean since fleeing into exile, that country's foreign minister said.
An eight-member delegation is expected to retrieve Mr. Aristide in Bangui early Sunday, Foreign Minister Charles Wenezoui told The Associated Press. He declined to say who was in the delegation but said he believed the delegation wouldn't leave immediately and could stay in Bangui as long as 24 hours.
Meanwhile, there is little information on the reported planned visit of Haiti's new Prime Minister, Gerard Latortue to Jamaica this weekend.
Up to late yesterday, Mr. Knight said it was not clear when Mr. Latortue would be arriving in the island.
Mr. Latortue has described Jamaica's offer to host Mr. Aristide as an "unfriendly" act.
Mr. Aristide left Haiti on February 29 as Haitian rebels were closing in on the capital, Port-au-Prince. He arrived March 1 in Bangui, where he has been staying in a presidential palace apartment.
Mr. Patterson announced Thursday that Mr. Aristide would travel to Jamaica and would stay for between eight and ten weeks. But he said the former president was not seeking political asylum here.
