Bill Clinton's spokesman says the former president will be named special U.N. envoy to Haiti.
Matt McKenna says an official announcement is expected Tuesday from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
Clinton is popular among many of Haiti's poor because as president in 1994, he used the threat of military force to oust a dictatorship in the Caribbean nation.
U.S. Army troops and Marines then quickly arrived to pave the way for the return of elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who had been ousted in a coup.
Haiti is the Western hemisphere's poorest country and has been mired in political and social turmoil for decades.
McKenna spoke to The Associated Press on Monday.
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