As part of a "stabilisation" force, troops were expected to act more like policemen in camouflage, which "drastically limited" their scope for action, says Mr Kress.
Her comments came as the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, urged the international community to send a stabilisation force to the region.
Some have already expressed a willingness to contribute to a stabilisation force".
A stabilisation force was proposed by Mr Annan and Mr Blair during the G8 summit in St Petersburg, and discussed by EU foreign ministers in Brussels yesterday.
Mrs Beckett told the Today programme that the promise of a stabilisation force could help to create the conditions necessary for an "assured peace" in the region, but appeared to rule out sending in soldiers until hostilities had ceased.
Mr Patterson said Caricom would not be sending peacekeepers to Haiti but would be part of a stabilisation force at a later date.
Hundreds of soldiers from the 29th Infantry Division completed nine days of training on 16 June 2001 at Fort Polk, Louisiana, to prepare for their peacekeeping mission in Bosnia, as the second division headquarters to be deployed as a part of Stabilisation Force.
The UN this month accused Rwanda and Uganda of destabilising eastern DRC, even as an east African "stabilisation" force was discussed.
By calling for a meeting on Monday on the creation of an international stabilisation force, before a ceasefire resolution is passed, Washington and London hope to put pressure on other world leaders to back their calls for a ceasefire.
Since no domestic army was available to guarantee "security", a UN "stabilisation force" was sent in at the behest of both the US and France.
