The Dominican President Luis Abinaderand several political parties agreed on Wednesday to create two commissions that will visit the United Nations, the Organization of American States and the European Union to “draw the attention” of the international community to the “importance” of assuming the crisis that Haiti is going through.
The commissions, whose members will be defined soon, join four others formalized in the first meeting of this type held last week, according to a statement from the leader of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), Eddy Olivares, at the end of the meeting.
Olivares affirmed that these new commissions will address these international organizations “with a firm decision in terms of drawing attention to the importance of the international community assuming the Haitian issue.”
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Regarding the absence at the meeting of the parties of the Dominican Liberation (PLD), Dominican Revolutionary (PRD) and the People’s Force (FP), the main opposition parties, Olivares affirmed that the Government “will continue to wait” for them to join the conversations.
During his accountability speech to the country, on February 27, Abinader called for “a country pact” aimed at defending national sovereignty in the face of the “dramatic situation” on the border with Haiti.
“Never has the situation in our neighboring country been so dramatic. Haiti is today a country devastated by crises, with a collapsed State and an international community that does not act”, said the president.
During his speech, Abinader said that in everything related to Haiti and its crises, the Dominican Republic “must have a unified position or the broadest consensus.”
“There is not and there will be no Dominican solution to Haiti’s problems,” since, in his opinion, “Haiti’s problems must be resolved in Haiti, through a formula of shared co-responsibility, which does not exclude Haitians, but which guarantees commitment of those who should and can, among the most developed countries».
This Wednesday, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced the temporary closure of its hospital in the shanty town of Cite-Soleil due to the deterioration of the security situation in Haiti in recent days, within the already serious context of crisis that the country is suffering. .
“Exposed to a high security risk, Doctors Without Borders is forced to close its hospital in Cite-Soleil,” the NGO said in a statement.
The violence spreads in a very worrying way since last February 28 in all the districts of the Haitian capital, with the population caught in the crossfire between armed gangs and with no choice but to flee their homes.
