Yesterday, President Luis Abinader debated with accredited ambassadors to the country on the Haitian issue and the recent nine-point joint statement agreed on the 14th of this month with the President of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse.
Abinader offered lunch to diplomats from different countries at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, along with Dominican Minister of Foreign Affairs Roberto Álvarez.
Due to the importance attributed to the meeting, the President suspended his participation in the National Council of the Magistracy, which yesterday completed the evaluation process of the 60 candidates to replace four judges of the Constitutional Court who determined the term for which they had been elected, have spent.
The president had already announced that meetings would begin this week with ambassadors from the countries most involved in Haiti, including Canada, the United States, France and Germany, to discuss funding for two hospitals in the neighboring country.
Both Abinader and Foreign Minister Álvarez recently argued that the Dominican Republic has offered to be a conduit for the aid they will provide to Haiti.
In the statement, the two heads of state reaffirmed their willingness to continue cooperation in priority areas of their respective countries and to exchange experiences.
Environment
A bilateral meeting is also scheduled for today between the Environment Ministers of the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
This meeting is scheduled for 11:00 in the room of the Interagency Coordinated Border Management Post, in the municipality of Comendador, Elías Piña.
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Joint statement
The joint statement addresses issues such as health, the maritime border, irregular migration flows, human trafficking and trafficking, the flow of weapons, drug trafficking and livestock theft.
Cooperation
It also covers collaboration in areas such as energy, agriculture and industrial production, cooking fuel and desertification mitigation.