Foreign Minister Roberto Álvarez once more appeared before the Security Council of the United Nations to emphasize the high cost the Dominican Republic bears of the chaos in Haiti.
“The Dominican Republic has maintained solidarity with Haiti despite the sacrifice this implies. Now, we cannot go beyond our material possibilities and even less adopt measures that threaten the stability and security of our country. We simply will not allow it, no matter who asks for it.”
Along the same lines, during his speech at the periodic meeting of this body to address the Haitian situation, Foreign Minister Álvarez expressed that the Dominican government has continued to provide its collaboration, most recently, with the evacuation through its territory of personnel from the United Nations and other organizations, as well as diplomats and nationals from more than a dozen countries, including several that are members of the Security Council.
Alvarez welcomed the recent formation of the Presidential Transition Council in Haiti, with the expectation that it will manage, as soon as possible, to appoint an interim prime minister and a government cabinet, thus completing the first part of the new journey. “Two years ago there was no way out for the situation in Haiti, only darkness; Today a faint but hopeful light appears that indicates the beginning of a new path. I wish it so!”.
In that same sense, Minister Roberto Álvarez called on the UN Security Council to identify and punish those responsible for the violence in Haiti, as a way of supporting the new political process being promoted in that country, since almost two years after adopting resolution 2653, it has only sanctioned four known criminals, without repercussions for the true financiers and those responsible for the generalized insecurity in the neighboring country. “If the sanctions regime is not rigorously applied, if there are no consequences, the actors behind the financing of criminal gangs can derail the delicate political process that Haiti is facing,” said the Dominican minister of foreign affairs.
Alvarez also urged the organization to more rigorously apply the embargo on illegal weapons that are suffocating Haiti. Haiti is a major importer of cocaine for transshipment to Europe and the United States and firearms from the United States.
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23 April 2024