BUENOS AIRES, June 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Argentina's 1980 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel on Wednesday criticized the sending of Argentine troops to Haiti and argued that "support (for aiti) should be given in a different way."

    "The sending of troops doesn't solve anything," Esquivel said. He called on international financial organizations to cancel Haiti's foreign debts in order to realize peace in the Caribbean country.

    The Argentine Congress will discuss next Wednesday whether to authorize sending troops to Haiti as part of the UN peacekeeping forces there.

    "We say yes, we must support Haiti but in a different way," Perez Esquivel stressed.

    He said that the decision by Argentine President Nestor Kirchner to dispatch troops to Haiti "is an attempt to get closer to the politics" of US President George W. Bush.

    The dispatch of 598 members of the Argentine Army and Marine Infantry, along with equipment, a ship and a mobile hospital, willbe debated by the Chamber of Senators on Wednesday and later by the Chamber of Deputies.

    The main opposition party, the Radical Civic Union, has alreadydecided to vote against the deployment of troops abroad. Enditem