WASHINGTON -- In response to a request Monday by the United Nations special envoy to Haiti, President Clinton said he has not discussed sending former President Jimmy Carter to the Caribbean nation to serve as an independent observer.
U.N. Special Envoy Dante Caputo requested that former world leaders go to Haiti in the next two days as independent observers to witness the legislative process and 'to tell the world what's going on.'
Caputo specifically mentioned Carter, former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada, former Prime Minister Michael Manley of Jamaica, former President Raul Alfonsin of Argentina and other European and Latin American leaders.
However, Clinton said he had only learned of the request Monday morning, and added that 'this is not anything we've ever discussed in a specific sense.'
'I think that before I would make a comment on it, I'd have to see what his reaction was,' Clinton said of Carter.
