Dominican Ambassador to the United Nations José A. Blanco condemned the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise and urged the international community to give top priority to Haiti. He asked the international community to urgently provide humanitarian aid and reinforce the United Nations mission in Haiti. As reported the UN has a staff of around 1,200, including 200 foreign staff, in Haiti.
The Dominican Republic UN mission issued a condolence message, solidarity with the Haitian people and wishes for justice. The Dominican UN mission issued a document requesting the UN assistance to guarantee the security of the Haitian people and prevent the spreading of the insecurity in Haiti to the Dominican Republic and the rest of the region. In the statement, the DR expresses the effects the long-running political crisis and lack of citizen security in Haiti, now worsened by Covid-19, has had on the DR.
Blanco made the remarks to the press after the UN Security Council held a closed-door meeting to discuss the murder of President Jovenel Moise in Haiti.
Blanco expressed his profound disagreement that the Security Council held the session on Haiti in private and did not invite the DR to participate.
“Faced with the magnitude of the facts and the magnitude of the crisis that is being experienced today in Haiti, a country with which we share an extensive border, we understand that the Security Council should have invited our country to participate in an active manner since we would be the most affected in the event of an overflow of this crisis, beyond its borders,” Blanco said as reported by EFE.
Dominican President Luis Abinader ordered the closure of the border with Haiti after learning of Moise’s assassination. Haiti declared a state of siege for 15 days following the assassination of the president on the early morning of 8 July 2021 at his home in Port-au-Prince.
“Faced with the magnitude of the facts and the magnitude of the crisis that is being experienced today in Haiti, a country with which we share an extensive border, we understand that the Security Council should have invited our country to participate in an active manner since we would be the most affected in the event of an overflow of this crisis, beyond its borders,” he said.
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El Nuevo Diario
9 July 2021