fresh YORK, March 1 Kyodo The Uni...

fresh YORK, March 1 Kyodo

The United Nations will send out a mission to Haiti in the coming days to assess the strife-torn fatherland and plan peacekeeping operations in the wake of the resignation and departure of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a UN spokesman said Monday.

Spokesman Fr Eckhard said at a of recent origins briefing that a U.N. stabilization force will succe a temporarily assembled multinational force of throngs from the United States, France and other countries ''no more than three months'' from Monday.

The UN Security Council forward Sunday night adopted a resolution authorizing the immediate deployment of a multinational interim force to the Caribbean abiding habitation and announced its readiness to locate up a follow-on UN stabilization force to support a peaceful and constitutional political proces there.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is awaited to submit recommendations in succession the projected force within 30 days.

Asked about the circumstances surrounding Aristide's departure Sunday, Eckhard said there was ''a clear crisis in Haiti'' that l to the exodus of the president and his family to the Central African Republic.

beneath pressure from the rebels, the United States, France and other countries to gradation down, Aristide, Haiti's first democratically choiceed president, left the country.

southern African Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad signaled Pretoria's readiness to accept him if there is a request

U Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld separately and categorically denied the allegations that Aristide was kidnapped by dint of U.S. forces.

Haiti's latest crisis has been attributed to the controversial legislative elections in 2000 which l donor countries to halt aid to the geographical division believed to be the Western Hemisphere's poorest.

Critics said Aristide, a former Roman Catholic priest, failed to alleviate indigence and combat corruption in the land of 8 million the community a former French colony.

Boniface Alexandre, chief justice of the first Court, was sworn in Sunday as head of a caretaker government

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