A local group of leading Dominican citizens is planning a march for international solidarity for Haiti on Saturday, 20 November. The march seeks to appeal to the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the International Monetary Fund, the Interamerican Development Bank, the World Bank, the Association of Caribbean States, and the peoples and governments of France, the US, Canada and the European Union to fulfill commitments made with democracy, progress and development of Haiti when that nation was intervened by the United Nations and US troops five years ago. The committee published full-page advertisements in local dalies expressing concern for the increase in poverty, environmental deterioration and political crisis in Haiti. It criticizes that the international community that intervened Haiti five years ago, "has irresponsibly abandoned Haiti". And points out that "this delicate situation adversely affects the DR as it increases migratory pressures to a country, which already has received large numbers of illegal immigrants, especially after the political crisis in 1991, and after the United States, applying their immense power, demonstrated their disposition to stop the arrival of refugees coming from Haiti to their own coasts". The publication stresses that the DR, has done more than any other country in the world to help Haiti, but because of its scarce productive resources and its own growing population cannot carry alone the burden, and thus appeals to the nations "that most should and can, such as is the case of the US, France and Canada, to not shun from fulfilling commitments with Haiti."
