The executive vice president of the Institutionality and Justice Foundation (finjus), Servio Tulio Castaños Guzmán, considered this Saturday that it is at the United Nations Organization (UN) who should be claimed for solutions to the multiple crisis plaguing Haiti.
“The solution to Haiti is not the Dominican Republicthe international community you have to understand that. The solution to Haiti is, or will be, when the international community raise awareness and be able to assist that nation”, expressed Castaños Guzmán when consulted on the subject.
Last Friday the high commissioner of the UN for human rights, Volker Türk, criticized the repatriation of Haitians by the Dominican Republic in the face of the crisis in the neighboring country. Last November, Türk asked the Dominican Republic to stop the repatriations.
The Dominican Republic, as in the past, responded to the high commissioner. Foreign Minister Roberto Álvarez said that the right to repatriate is sovereign of all nations. “It is surprising that the Commissioner has talked about deportations in Haiti instead of bringing solutions to the crisis,” Álvarez said in a tweet.
Castaños Guzmán considered that the Dominican Republic “must concentrate” the speech on telling the UN to assist Haiti. “We don’t have to be defending ourselves against any type of pronouncement made by that commissioner,” said Castaños Guzmán.
“The important thing is that the government is clear about the rights that the Dominican Republic has so that, when any issue of immigration status can be presented, exercise them,” added the executive vice president of finjus.
Servio Tulio Castaños Guzmán indicated that the Dominican Republic should continue claiming to the UN already his Security Council to attend that country.
Last October, the Government of Haiti asked the international community the sending of a foreign force to confront the armed gangs that take control of the capital. However, up to now, the international community He has not given a concrete response to the request of the Prime Minister, Ariel Henry.
Following Henry’s request, the general secretary of the UNAntónio Guterres, proposed the establishment of a rapid action force that is made up of soldiers from one or several countries and that is not under the banner of the United Nations Organization.
“And what we have to continue doing is what we have always been doing, to the extent of our possibilities, continue assisting (…) And exercising the right of as a country we have, always within the framework, obviously, of respecting the rights humans,” he said.
