(28 Apr 2007)
1. Medium of Chinese UN officers at security check point
2. Medium of Chinese UN soldiers
3. Medium of Chinese UN soldier stationed with rifle
4. Check point, Chinese UN soldiers, one checking car stopped
5. Close up documents, pull out to Chinese UN soldiers checking documents
6. Column of school children walking along chanting "down with violence, long live peace"
7. Close up of girl chanting "down with violence, long live peace"
8. Medium of children cheering
9. Various wide shots of demonstration celebrating peace in Cite Soleil
10. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Colonel Alfonso Pedrosa, Brazilian military spokesman, United Nations Mission for the Stabilisation of Haiti (MINUSTAH):
"This is a demonstration to celebrate peace in Cite Soleil. We mobilised the people to Cite Soleil in order to show how much we value peace."
11. Various of demonstration, people playing instruments at demonstration for peace
12. Wide of Cite Soleil street, demonstrators with banners, UN APC at side of road
STORYLINE:
Chinese officers who recently joined the United Nations Mission for the Stabilisation of Haiti (MINUSTAH) patrolled inside Cite Soleil on Friday, as residents welcomed a reduction in gang violence in this notorious slum, in the capital Port-au-Prince.
The one-hundred Chinese policemen and women arrived in the Caribbean country nearly two weeks ago. The group includes seven women and brings the total number of Chinese officers to 125.
On Friday residents of Cite Soleil celebrated the return of peace with singing and dancing in the once-deserted streets of the area.
Students from the National School in Cite Soleil joined the celebration, chanting "down with violence, long live peace."
"This is a demonstration to celebrate peace in Cite Soleil. We mobilised the people to Cite Soleil in order to show how much we value peace," said Brazilian military spokesman, Colonel Alfonso Pedrosa of MINUSTAH.
In February, during a campaign to root out well-armed gangs, U.N. soldiers took control of a school which had reportedly been used to fire on passing U.N. patrols.
More than 400 suspected gang members have been arrested this year, and it is claimed that shootings in Cite Soleil have been vastly reduced.
The United States and Haiti also signed a 20 (m) million US dollar aid agreement that will pay for infrastructure and job creation programs in Cite Soleil this week.
The 8,800-strong U.N. peacekeeping force came to Haiti in 2004 to restore order after an uprising toppled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
About 9-thousand troops and civilian police officers from more than a dozen nations - mostly Jordan, Brazil, Pakistan, Bolivia, Sri Lanka, Guatemala and Chile - serve in the mission, that is trying to keep the peace amid outbreaks of gang violence.
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