Tuesday, January 25, 2011

ARTICLE - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - MEDIATOR

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC WILLING TO MEDIATE IN HAITI'S POLITICAL CRISIS
(Dominican Today)

Santo Domingo.- Dominican Foreign Relations minister Carlos Morales yesterday said his country is prepared to mediate in the political crisis that affects Haiti, without interfering in the Haitian Government’s internal affairs.

Morales said the country’s mediation would be established through the United Nations, the Organization of American Sates (OAS), the European Union and the Haiti donor countries, including Brazil, the United States and Canada. “Anything which the Dominican Republic can do without meddling in the internal affairs (of Haiti), we’ve always been willing to do it. We are in the best disposition to help Haiti so that it looks for a peaceful and democratic solution to the electoral crisis.”

The Dominican official noted however that Haiti’s Electoral Commission will hand down its ruling before January 30.

He said Haiti president René Préval’s visit to his par Leonel Fernandez in the National Palace on Saturday is one more example of the Dominican chief executive’s openness in international relations, since he has received other heads of State.

PRÉVAL VISITS FERNANDEZ
Préval’s unannounced visit to Fernandez on Saturday served to discuss the neighboring nation’s sanitary, economic and political crises, the latter further spiraled since the winner has yet to be declared.

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