Port-au-Prince.- The Presidential Transition Council of Haiti held a special meeting this Thursday in Port-au-Prince with members of the diplomatic corps and accredited international organizations to discuss the announcement by the Dominican Government of deport to 10,000 Haitians every week.
This meeting was held to debate “the condemnable decision of the Dominican Government to deport 500,000 migrants (per year) to Haiti, defying their rights and international conventions on the matter,” the Council stated on its social networks.
The organization met the day before to also discuss the issue of the deportations of Haitians residing in the Dominican Republic.
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This Thursday’s meeting, chaired by the new president of the Presidential Transition Council, Leslie Voltaire, was attended by the Minister of Justice, Carlos Hercule, and several other ministers, including those of Economy, Defense and Health.
The debates focused on national security and the “uncontrolled” repatriation of Haitians by the Dominican Republic.
Last Tuesday, the Prime Minister of Haiti, Garry Conille, announced the creation of an interministerial committee to provide a diplomatic and humanitarian response to the mass deportations from the Dominican Republic.
In his account on the social network en masse” of Haitians.
This constitutes, denounces the Haitian prime minister, “a violation of the fundamental principles of human dignity.”
The Dominican Government revealed last Wednesday that a repatriation operation will be carried out for 10,000 irregular migrants per week.
“The immediate execution of a repatriation operation was agreed, with the objective of repatriating up to 10,000 immigrants per week to their country of origin,” the Dominican authorities announced.