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11/03/2004:

"Peacekeepers bring hope to the Haitian people"

Tegucigalpa, Honduras - Four Central American nations will send up to 500 soldiers to help United Nations' peacekeeping forces in Haiti next year in a bid to stem political unrest and a wave of killings.

The United Nations mission is charged with restoring order in the impoverished Caribbean nation after its president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was ousted in February.

The mission has been hampered from the start by a shortage of international troops and police that had been promised.

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