HAVANA, March 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Haiti's new Prime Minister Gerard Latortue announced Wednesday he is to appoint a widely representative government by the weekend to tide over the country's crisis, reports reaching here said.

    Latortue is expected to arrive at the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince Wednesday. He said that his government's most urgent task was to restore security in the face of violence and lootings thatpersist in some areas of Haiti, especially in the capital.

    In a radio interview in Miami, Florida, where he currently lives, the prime minister said that upon his arrival at Haiti, he would get in touch with the council "of wise men" that elected himTuesday.

    Latortue, who is to replace Yvon Neptune, the prime minister under the deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, favors elections to choose a new president.

    The future prime minister is to seek the assistance of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to foster the development in the strife-torn nation.

    He anticipated he would contact the two other candidates for the post he currently holds, namely former army commander Herard Abraham and the businessman Smark Michel, prime minister from 1994to 1995 during Aristide's government.

    An opponent of Aristide, Latortue, a 69-year-old French-educated economist and lawyer, served as foreign minister of former President Leslie Manigat's government, and a UN official stationed in Africa as well as a consultant of several companies in Miami. Enditem