(18 Jan 2004)
Night shots
1. Business jet taxiing
2. Band waiting to greet President Jean Bertrand Aristide
3. Aristide walks down plane steps
3. Aristide greeting various government officials
4. Security
5. Aristide stood next to Prime Minister Yvon Neptune
Interior
6. Interior briefing
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Haiti's President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
"I will try to be brief. As I said, once we have coup d'état then we have death. Once we say no to coup d'état then we say yes to life. And we have the responsibility of protecting the life of every single citizen. I am proud to be Haitian, I'm glad to see how many Haitians understand about the necessity of moving towards life and rejecting coup d'état. Clearly some others mean to keep thinking about that direction and I encourage them because this is what we need. And I may add, what we'll have in the coming six months - elections to renew our parliament will mean life instead of coup d'état. Dialogue, compromise, elections, that's what we need"
8. Neptune
9. Briefing
10. SOUNDBITE (French/Creole) President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
"(French) Every citizen should reflect on how to contribute. (Creole) ... (French) He can choose to go towards life or the death which would be crystalised by a coup d'état. It's the death of man, of the economy, of the country and of hope."
11. Officials listening to briefing
12. Aristide walks away from microphone
13. End of briefing
STORYLINE:
Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide warned on Saturday that a coup d'état would lead to death and the destruction of the country and its economy.
At a briefing after his return from Dominica where he attended the funeral of Prime Minister Pierre Charles, Aristide urged his citizens to choose elections, compromise and life over the possibility of overthrowing his regime.
After telling his audience, which included most of his cabinet and the chief of Haiti's police force, that the burial of Pierre Charles had caused him to reflect on life and death, President Aristide used mortality as an analogy for Haiti's immediate political future.
"Once we have coup d'état then we have death, once we say no to coup d'état then we say yes to life," he said.
The Haitian capital Port Au Prince and several smaller towns have been seared by violence during the past three weeks resulting in loss of life and the destruction of property.
A loosely organised opposition is calling for the ouster of Aristide's government and the parliament has dissolved itself following the postponement of elections.
President Aristide reiterated a pledge for fresh elections within six months, an announcement he made earlier this week at the Summit of the Americas in Monterrey, Mexico.
Aristide noted 40 governments in sub-Saharan Africa had been overthrown in this manner during the 1960s and 70s bringing, only a legacy of failed regimes and economic stagnation.
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