The Dominican Republic and Haiti advanced on bilateral talks regarding migration. Members of the Dominican-Haitian Interinstitutional Technical Committee on Migration and Frontier Affairs met in Port-au-Prince this week for talks. As per news reports, one of the principal advances was on the rules and status regarding Haitian immigrant workers in the DR. The Minister of Foreign Relations of Haiti Fritz Longchamp and Minister of Foreign Relations of the DR, Eduardo Latorre to ratify the agreements. The Dominican delegation to the talks was made up by: Deputy Secretary of Foreign Relations, Rosario Graciano (in charge of consular affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Relations); Manuel Tapia Cunillera, Interior and Police; ambassador Wenceslao Guerrero Pou, in charge of the Division of Haitian Affairs; Amarilis López, counsellor for that division; Ivan Peña, Antonio Lora and Pablo Acosta of the Migration Department; and Carmen Ogando, of the National Frontier Council.
