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Bridgetown, Bar­ba­dos

While Cari­com lead­ers are hope­ful that a gen­er­al elec­tion can take place in Haiti on No­vem­ber 25, some be­lieve an end to the tur­moil in the Caribbean na­tion must take place first to fa­cil­i­tate a free and fair de­mo­c­ra­t­ic process.

Speak­ing with the me­dia at the 48th Reg­u­lar Meet­ing of the Con­fer­ence of Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment in Bar­ba­dos yes­ter­day, Guyana Pres­i­dent Dr Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali said, “Cari­com is unit­ed on the fact that we must do every­thing to en­sure that elec­tions are held. But be­fore elec­tions are held we have to do every­thing to en­sure that there is sta­bil­i­ty in terms of se­cu­ri­ty, the hu­man­i­tar­i­an side of things and yes, we are con­cerned as every­one else and we un­der­stand how im­por­tant these elec­tions are.”