A three-person panel was set up on Wednesday to work closely with Haiti's interim president Boniface Alexandre, according to reports from Port-au-Prince.

The reports said the panel included opposition representative Paul Denis, a member of former president Jean Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas Family party and the chief of the UN Development Program'sHaiti office, Adama Guindo.

The trilateral body will choose a seven- to nine-person councilof "wise men" to select a new prime minister and government.

The reports quoted opposition representative Denis as saying that Haiti's main priority is to form a government and fill the power vacuum created by Aristide's departure.

The power vacuum was the basic reason for the spiraling chaos in Haiti, he said, adding that the tense situation "worried us very much."

At least 10 people were killed in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday as violence erupted between Aristide supporters and the opposition.