MADRID -- Spain's government announced Friday that "it will spare no effort" to clear up what happened in the March 2004 killing of Spanish television reporter Ricardo Ortega in Haiti.

The Cabinet therefore agreed Friday to declassify an intelligence document requested by Spain's National Court to determine the circumstances of Ortega's death.

On Nov. 24, Judge Eloy Velasco requested the declassification of the intelligence report on the death of the journalist in Port-au-Prince.

After saying that journalism is one of the mainstays of democracy and freedom, Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez De la Vega said Friday that "the Spanish judiciary and government should be on the side of Ricardo Ortega."

The Antena 3 correspondent died March 7, 2004, after being shot while covering a demonstration in Port-au-Prince by members of the opposition to ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Ortega was shot in the chest and abdomen, and died shortly after the incident at a hospital in the Haitian capital.

A group of radical Aristide supporters shot at the crowd of demonstrators from the rooftop of a movie theater, while another group fired from a nearby street at the tens of thousands of people celebrating the departure of the erstwhile president. EFE