[CARICOM]
Ambassador Sam: “I know my job as Ambassador also entails serving as a link through which national stakeholders would engage in regional processes and vice-versa and I intend to deliver in that regard.”
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Haiti
New Haitian Ambassador to CARICOM Accredited at CARICOM Ceremony
BARBADOS TO HOST 31ST CARICOM HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING
[CARICOM Conference Summit]
Regional leaders are keen to forge stronger links with Africa, and they will also take time to discuss their first CARICOM-African Union Summit to be held in June, as well as the 15th Meeting of the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development.
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U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL GUTERRES: WE RENEW COMMITMENT TO HAITI ON ANNIVERSARY OF 2010 EARTHQUAKE
[Haiti 2010 Earthquake\United Nations]
U.N. Secretary-General Guterres: “We remember the hundreds of thousands of Haitians who lost their lives and the millions gravely affected by the devastating earthquake that struck their country ten years ago…With the continued support of the international community, Haiti is striving to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.”
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KOMOKODA GROUP WILL PROTEST AT U.N. AGAINST HAITIAN PRESIDENT MOISE AND WESTERN IMPERIALISM IN HAITI
[Haiti News\U.N. Protest]
Thursday’s protest is organized by the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti (KOMOKODA)–and will start at 3:pm at the US Mission to the United Nations 799 UN Plaza at 45th Street & 1st Avenue in Manhattan.
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CALIFORNIA CONGRESSWOMAN WALTERS MEMORIALIZES HAITI’S LASALIN MASSACRE AMID CURRENT VIOLENCE BY “GOVERNMENT-CONNECTED GANGS”
[Caribbean News\Haiti]
Congresswoman Maxine Waters: “As a longtime friend of Haiti, I am deeply concerned that one year after the massacre, the state officials implicated in the Lasalin killings remain at liberty…Early reports suggest that the recent killing of at least 15 people in the Bel-Air neighborhood between November 4-7, 2019, may have been carried out by the very same gang leaders implicated in the Lasalin massacre. ”
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U.N. PLEDGES “CONTINUOUS COMMITMENT” TO HAITI AS PROTESTERS DEMAND RESIGNATION OF HAITIAN PRESIDENT
[Caribbean News\Haiti]
U.N.: “The Secretary-General is concerned by the current political crisis and its adverse impact on the security situation and the lives of Haitians. He urges all Haitian stakeholders to engage in genuine dialogue and prevent a further escalation in violence that threatens to reverse stability gains. He calls on the Haitian National Police, which has assumed full responsibility for the security and protection of the Haitian people… to discharge its duties with due regard for all people and their human rights.”
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