HAVANA, March 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Haiti on Wednesday expected the arrival of the new Prime Minister Gerard Latourte, who is due to come from his current residence in Miami, the United States, said reports reaching here from Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.

    Latortue, picked Tuesday by the council of "wise men", announced from Florida the priorities of his mandate in Haiti was to form a new cabinet and assume responsibility for the police, the only armed corps of the Caribbean country.

    He pledged to form in the following days a government of national reconciliation with the possible inclusion of several members of the ruling Lavalas Family Party, led by the deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

    Although his term will be brief and only to last until earlier legislative and presidential elections are held, Latourte said he considered the resolution of the crisis in Haiti would take years and not just months.

    Latortue served as foreign minister in 1988 to former PresidentLeslie Manigat, and left Haiti the same year after Manigat was toppled in a coups by Haiti's military. He has been living in Florida, the US since then, working as a business consultant.

    He is presently the secretary general to the Association of Caribbean Universities and Research Centers based in Puerto Rico. Enditem