President Luis Abinader was the first guest to be interviewed by the news and comments radio program “A diario.” The program airs Monday to Friday on Sentido 89.3 FM, from 7am to 10am. Journalist Christian Jiménez is the general producer of the information and opinion show. Other regular participants are Pablo McKinney, Jose Francisco Arias, Julian Roa and Rosario Medina.
When interviewed on the issue of Haiti, President Luis Abinader reiterated the need for the international community to intervene to pacify the economic, political and social crisis facing that nation.
He said the Dominican government will “continue to defend the national interest by respecting the human rights of the Haitians who are here and that we have to deport them as any nation does. The first one to do so is the United States.”
The head of state reiterated that his government will continue to denounce the irresponsibility of the international community and will continue to deport those who are illegally in the country.
“It is very easy to criticize a country… some bureaucrats of the United Nations, it is very good to be in an auditorium without knowing,” argued the President.
He said the country will continue to take measures based on securing the border and increasing deportations.
“We have to continue pressing in this sense and awaken the great irresponsibility of the human rights teams worried about this and that… last weekend 40 innocent people were killed and where were the human rights defenders,” he questioned.
He considered that a United Nations commission should be installed in Haiti for a determined period of time and have a glass of wine with the Haitians to analyze how to solve the crisis.
“That commission should go to Haiti, stay there and fix Haiti. Let them go there, take their bottle of wine and analyze the situation in Haiti, because we have done too much, beyond the possibilities.”
Abinader highlighted the interest of the Secretary General of the United Nations António Guterres in resolving the Haitian crisis. Nevertheless, he said, Guterres has not found the support of other nations to seek a possible solution to the Haitian crisis.
Last month, the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination asked the countries of the Americas to put an end to the deportations of Haitian migrants. The Dominican Republic, the United States, Bahamas and Turks & Caicos have stepped up deportations as migrants continue to arrive affected by the dire situation in Haiti.
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Listin Diario
3 May 2023