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12/04/2004:

"Brazil rejects U.S. call for Haiti crackdown"

U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti will not respond to international pressure to "use violence" against armed gangs and will rebuild the country as a "peacekeeping force, not an occupying force," the mission's Brazilian commander said on Thursday.

His comments and those of Brazil's foreign minister came a day after U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell demanded U.N troops crack down on street gangs after gunfights broke out near him when he visited Haiti's interim leader at the presidential palace.

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