ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>JOE OLIVER, CNN ANCHOR: The return ever democracy in Haiti may not be far off. In New York, ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has arrived at Governors Island where an agreement returning him to power awaits his signature.</s>RICHARD ROTH, CNN UNITED NATIONS CORRESPONDENT: Haiti had been run for years by military generals. The U.N. had tried to broker some type of peace agreement and Raul Cedras, the leading general, had come to New York. And a U.N. official, Dante Caputo, I remember, came out to the island there and there were talks and discussions, and there was pressure put on General Cedras to sign, to give up power in a peaceful way. Cedras and his supporters wanted to stay in power. The U.S. and the U.N. had been threatening sanctions, had been putting more of an economic crunch on the island. There was a big concern in Washington that Florida and other states in the U.S. would be flooded with refugees from Haiti. So, while that was not a stated goal, that was the backdrop to getting the Haiti political situation under control to some extent. It wasn't until the U.S. government threatened to send forces, along with the U.N., to Haiti, that is what prompted General Cedras to flee, probably under a negotiated deal, to go to Central America to hide out.
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