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Violence-torn Haiti gets new prime minister
0 Comments | AFP, March, 2004
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) — Gerard Latortue, once the highest ranking Haitian officials at the United Nations, was named the country's prime minister, as two more deaths were reported in the violence-torn Haitian capital.
A French-educated lawyer and economist, Latortue spent much of his career at the UN Organization for Industrial Development. He was picked by a council of eight eminent Haitians who announced their choice after discussing with interim President Boniface Alexandre.
"I am very happy to see the trust placed in me by the council of wise men who recommended me for the post of prime minister," Latortue, 69, told AFP in a phone call from Miami.
The council was formed under a plan approved by the United States, France and the Organization of American...
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