'No queue behind Aristide'
2004-06-04 15:49
Donwald Pressly
Cape Town - A queue of deposed leaders was unlikely to follow in the path of ousted Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide to South Africa, said Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Friday.
At a parliamentary media briefing, she was asked whether she would take up a suggestion from the opposition United Democratic Movement that the government draw up a policy on providing a home to deposed presidents.
"It is an interesting idea," she said.
"I don''t believe there will be a queue of people," she said. Even if there was, she did not think they would all be allowed in.
Asked if Aristide had indicated he would be standing again in the next election in Haiti - expected in 2005 - she said: "We have not discussed that."
Aristide, who was ousted earlier this year, arrived in South Africa this week. He will be housed at government expense.
- I-Net Bridge (News24)