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The United Nations is urging Spain to reconsider its plans to withdraw its 200 peacekeeping troops from Haiti next month, Spanish media reported on Sunday. No one at Spain’s Defense Ministry was available to comment. Haiti held presidential elections earlier this month, the results of which are still being counted. The UN has deployed 9,000 troops and police to support the interim government and help ensure a return to democratic rule after former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted from power in 2004. Full Story