31.   The commission arose from four days of talks this week in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, Foreign Minister Eduardo Latorre said.

32.   The soldiers would be based mostly in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.

33.   Vega, a career diplomat, was the Chilean consul in the Haitian capital since March.

34.   Four people were shot Thursday in a poor suburb of the Haitian capital during clashes between police and armed civilians, several sources said.

35.   He spoke leaning against a shack in Cite Soleil, the largest shantytown in the Haitian capital and a stronghold of Aristide supporters.

36.   In the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, the US embassy also condemned the killing and called for an immediate investigation.

37.   A European diplomat in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince said the United States had sent notes to its European allies in recent days advising them of an impending military intervention.

38.   A Haitian police officer has been shot to death in the Haitian capital, the third in less than a week, police said Friday.

39.   Also early Friday, several hundred people pillaged a grocery store in the Haitian capital, according to an AFP correspondent on the scene.

40.   Calm returned to the Haitian capital on Wednesday, with two groups totalling six police barring vehicular entry to the port area where the protests occurred.