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10/30/2004:

"Aristide wants free elections back home"

Brasilia - South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Thursday said former Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide, in exile in South Africa, wants his country to hold "free and fair election" allowing Haitians to pick whomever they want.

"President Aristide's wish is whatever happen in Haiti, issued in a free and fair election, for the Haitians to choose whoever they would like as their leadership," Dlamini-Zuma told reporters during an official visit in Brasilia.

"That is the main wish of President Aristide," she said.

Aristide fled a popular revolt in Haiti in late February, flying to the Central African Republic and later Jamaica before arriving in South Africa on May 31.

Full Article : iol.co.za

Arisrtide was flown out of Haiti by the U.S. forces during a US orchestrated coup.