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Álvarez Gil

lines on the record: 48
first: 2022-09-26
most recent: 2023-07-06
sittings or episodes: 6
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“It is the inescapable duty of Haiti’s elites to rise to the occasion; they must seize the historic moment and act in the Haitian national interest and for the common good of the entire nation. We hope that in the next 90 days, when we meet again in the Chamber, we will have begun to take the necessary measures, mentioned time and again in the Council, to overcome the severe crisis that the Haitian people are experiencing.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9368 (2023) · source
“This situation of insecurity, which was recently highlighted by the heads of UNICEF and the World Food Programme after their visit to Haiti, is having grave consequences, as is the case of the almost 3 million children in need of humanitarian support. The state of calamity affecting the people of Haiti is also reflected — as noted by the Economic and Social Council’s Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti — in the fact that it is one of the most food insecure countries. That is an alarming fact, and it is deplorable that, as the Group points out, only 23 per cent of the funds needed to respond to this tragedy have been disbursed. We are at a turning point for a solution to the crisis in Haiti.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9368 (2023) · source
“The levels of insecurity in Haiti have led many important companies to close permanently or limit their operations, thus reducing the rate of formal employment and affecting the daily life of its inhabitants. One example is the case of the CODEVI industrial park, in the town of Juana Méndez, located right on the border with our country. This industrial park provides direct employment to some 20,000 Haitians, indirectly impacting another 100,000 people. This important company has had to close its doors several times due to violence and lack of security. A few days ago, it had to close for two weeks.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9368 (2023) · source
“I would also like to highlight the significant impact of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2653 (2022), concerning Haiti, whose Chair, Ambassador Michel Biang, of Gabon, we recently received in our country. The Committee is responsible for establishing sanctions to be enforced by all Member States against persons or entities that, in one way or another, encourage and make use of the activities of criminal organizations. Ambassador Biang was able to experience first-hand the Haitian reality and its impact on our country. He was also able to observe the cost to the Dominican Republic of maintaining security in the border area.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9368 (2023) · source
“With the support of CARICOM and its recently appointed Eminent Persons Group, made up of three former Prime Ministers, we are hopeful that the necessary consensus can be reached among Haiti’s political class in order to move steadily towards stability and democracy. We also recognize the importance of the various initiatives announced by other Governments, such as El Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada and the United States. In that regard, we welcome the recent statements by United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken supporting sending an international force to help to stabilize Haiti. All of those initiatives aimed at restoring security and democratic governance in Haiti are essential and must continue to be developed.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9368 (2023) · source
“It is the responsibility of the Secretary-General to continue strengthening his leadership role with a view to establishing the kind of force I mentioned, which has not been achieved so far. For its part, my country is contributing actively in terms of trade, the supply of fuel and many other logistical and humanitarian aspects. Based on the recommendations of resolution 2645 (2022), several countries and institutions have taken concrete action. In that regard, we note the timely efforts of Prime Minister Holness, whom we commend for promoting an inclusive dialogue among Haiti’s representative organizations.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9368 (2023) · source
“That is the only measure that will make it possible to restore security and ensure the environment needed to stabilize the country and make it possible to hold democratic elections. I want to put on record our strong support for maintaining a solid and strengthened United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH). That presence guarantees that a certain level of attention will be paid to this situation, which has reached the limit of what can be endured. It is well known that BINUH alone is not a response to the current crisis in Haiti — because even the security of the Mission itself has been affected, which is weakening its effectiveness and the image of the United Nations itself.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9368 (2023) · source
“Holness and others — that finding a definitive and lasting solution to the crisis in Haiti is the primary responsibility of the Haitian people. However, without international support, it is impossible to envision the possibility that the necessary security conditions can be created so as to bring about a feasible solution for resolving the crisis. Today’s meeting is taking place on the eve of the second anniversary of President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination. We express our solidarity with his family and the Government and the people of Haiti. However, it is not enough to pay respectful homage to the departed President or to mourn the thousands of lives lost. We need to see a positive response to the continuing request by Prime Minister Ariel Henry and his Government for a multinational force to support the Haitian National Police.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9368 (2023) · source
“I would like to begin by acknowledging Secretary- General António Guterres’ important and long-awaited visit to Haiti on 1 July, as well as his statement today in which he called attention to the urgent need to respond to the humanitarian, insecurity and political crisis that the Haitian people are going through. The Secretary- General’s visit underscores the importance that the Organization attaches to the situation in Haiti and the Secretariat’s commitment to resolutions 2645 (2022) and 2653 (2022). We look forward to the next steps to be taken in the context of the situation. We have repeatedly and clearly stated before the Security Council — and as was emphasized today by the Special Representative, Mr.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9368 (2023) · source
“Mr. Álvarez Gil (Dominican Republic) (spoke in Spanish): I would like to thank Ms. María Isabel Salvador, Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Haiti, and Ambassador Michel Xavier Biang, Permanent Representative of Gabon and Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2653 (2022) concerning Haiti, for their briefings. I also welcome the presence of and the briefings by Prime Minister Andrew Holness of Jamaica, on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Mr. Jean Victor Généus, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Worship of Haiti; and Ambassador François Jackman, Permanent Representative of Barbados. Finally, I want to recognize Ms. Marie-Yolène Gilles, the representative of civil society, for her important and brave contribution.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9368 (2023) · source
“Any decision to evade the provision of urgent and effective assistance to Haiti or to avoid taking measures that are proper and exclusive to this Organization, as mandated by its Charter and by international law, may be considered an abdication of responsibility. The Security Council cannot ignore that.”
2023-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9311 (2023) · source
“Those tragic episodes, which were dramatically brought to our attention today by Special Representative of the Secretary-General María Isabel Salvador, are occurring again and again and are painfully reminiscent of other situations in which the international community has not reacted with sufficient diligence to avoid greater disasters. We have said it in the past before the Security Council and we say it again today: the situation in Port-au-Prince is comparable to that of an internal armed conflict, the difference in this case being who qualifies as a belligerent. In fact, what we are witnessing today is the dissolution of the Haitian State. The case at hand requires no further evidence.”
2023-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9311 (2023) · source
“State sovereignty carries with it the obligation to protect its own people. When a State is unable to do so fully and the peace and security of a region is endangered, that responsibility falls to the international community. Diplomatic, humanitarian and any other means within its competence should be employed. In the case of Haiti, the Haitian authorities have repeatedly requested the deployment of a special force to support the Haitian National Police. That is urgent in the light of what continues to happen in the country: one week ago, about 50 people were killed by armed bandits in Source Matelas, in the commune of Cabaret, while the day before yesterday, owing to the failure of law enforcement agencies, about 13 or 14 presumed members of a criminal gang were lynched in the streets of Port-au-Prince.”
2023-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9311 (2023) · source
“In that regard, we wish to refer to the most recent report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which refers to the alarming increase in the trafficking of sophisticated firearms to Haiti, as well as ammunition, which is one of the main causes of the increase in violence. According to the report, on which UNODC Executive Director Ms. Ghada Waly briefed us extensively, gang activities have reached unprecedented levels, as has drug trafficking, thereby fuelling Haiti’s insecurity crisis in an uncontrolled manner and causing it to spill over its borders. We therefore reiterate our urgent appeal to the members of the Security Council: there is no time to lose. By whatever means it deems appropriate, the Council must implement the measures required to prevent the flow of arms and ammunition into Haiti.”
2023-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9311 (2023) · source
“We also greatly appreciate the efforts to identify the sectors within Haiti that encourage criminal activities and contribute to insecurity, which will undoubtedly allow for accountability to be established and hopefully lead to the imposition of effective sanctions. For our part, the Dominican Government has imposed entry bans on a number of Haitian nationals in order to safeguard our security and territorial integrity, thereby supporting the efforts of the Security Council. In the same vein, we appreciate Human Rights Council resolution 52/39 approving the appointment of an independent human rights expert for Haiti, which was recently adopted. In addition to those measures, other steps are needed to put a definitive stop to the source of insecurity, the whereabouts and operations of which are well known.”
2023-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9311 (2023) · source
“What more must the Haitian authorities do in their call for assistance to confront the criminal gangs, who are primarily responsible for the current humanitarian disaster? We are aware of the important work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2653 (2022) concerning Haiti, chaired by the representative of Gabon, Ambassador Michel Biang, to whom we reiterate the full support of the Dominican Government in view of the Committee’s future visit to our country. We also recognize the efforts of the Panel of Experts, which recently began its work on the Haitian crisis.”
2023-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9311 (2023) · source
“In their long ordeal, the humanitarian situation is worsening to such an extent that according to the most recent report of the World Food Programme, which has been cited here today, the Integrated Phase Classification estimates that for the period of March to June this year, 19,200 people are in catastrophic phase 5, while 17 per cent of the population, or some 1.65 million people, are in emergency phase 4, and 31 per cent, or 3 million Haitians, are in crisis phase 3. Almost half of the Haitian population are in a state of crisis. How can we allow such a scandalous humanitarian situation to take place before our very eyes, with those who are most vulnerable — women and children — the worst affected?”
2023-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9311 (2023) · source
“Frankly, we are inclined to consider the possibility that as some say, countries receive attention according to discriminatory stratification. Are the Haitian people not victims of an aggression that is breaching peace in the region? Was this venerable Organization not created precisely to address atrocious situations such as the one that Haiti is enduring? To date, the recurrent pleas of the Haitian authorities for effective cooperation to end the violence, as reiterated here today by Foreign Minister Généus, have been futile. The response to help the Haitian people to return to a minimum level of normality remains inadequate.”
2023-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9311 (2023) · source
“Despite the disastrous scale of the situation, it has so far been unable to move the emotions or the conscience of those who must make the final decisions in support of Haitians. Pope Francis recently prayed, “Turn your gaze to Haiti, which has long been experiencing a grave social, economic and humanitarian crisis, and support the efforts of political actors and the international community to seek a definitive solution to this troubled country’s many problems.” I believe firmly that our words have not been falling on deaf ears, but we do not understand why it has taken so long for this vital organ, the Security Council, to do what must be done to respond to Haiti’s request for help. There are examples of other initiatives to support countries in crisis for which international assistance has not had to travel such a winding road.”
2023-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9311 (2023) · source
“Mr. Álvarez Gil (Dominican Republic) (spoke in Spanish): We commend Russia for its presidency of the Security Council for the month of April. I would like to reiterate my heartfelt congratulations to Ms. María Isabel Salvador on her appointment as Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti, which is so critical to achieving peace and security in the region, and to wish her every success in carrying out her new functions. We assure her of the Dominican Republic’s responsible and sustained support. We are meeting once again today to address the tragic catastrophe that is having such an enormous impact on the lives and physical and mental stability of millions of Haitians, an untenable situation that is not only affecting Haiti but also my country, the Dominican Republic.”
2023-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9311 (2023) · source
“How can we hope to forge that trust if we fail to act in a timely manner in the face of a crisis as unique as that of Haiti? Until there is firm action against the criminals who impede Haiti’s sovereign future, I do not believe, with all due respect, that we can ask the Haitian people and the other peoples who are witnessing this tragedy to place their trust in the United Nations.”
2023-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9247 (2023) · source
“Given this striking commonality of global leadership, it is clear that the future calls for a more empowered Organization, one that will resolve with equal vigour and perseverance the smaller-scale armed conflicts that generate so much suffering today while continuing to strive to rid humankind of weapons of mass destruction. But that is possible only if world Governments and citizens have a high degree of confidence in this venerable institution. The President of the General Assembly asserted in this Chamber last month that deadlock in our task of maintaining international peace and security “translates to a dead end for the millions of children, women, men and families who are all suffering the consequences” and “are putting their trust in us to step beyond power dynamics” (S/PV.9220, p. 5).”
2023-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9247 (2023) · source
“That is why we continue to warn of its constant deterioration. If we agree that humankind is facing a turning point — a “tectonic shift of the times”, a Zeitenwende, as the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz put it, referring to the crisis of multilateralism, which no longer responds to the current reality — then this Organization needs to be modernized so that it can serve as a tool for safeguarding universal security and upholding the values of its founding document, the Charter of the United Nations. That is a vision shared by President Xi Jinping and the recent United States National Security Strategy.”
2023-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9247 (2023) · source
“Our country is supportive and respectful of international law, especially as Haiti is a friendly country with which we are bound by a treaty of peace and perpetual friendship. As we have repeated countless times, we are willing to continue to play a good-neighbourly role. But our involvement would be very different if there were concrete support from the international community to restoring peace and security in Haiti. Since 2019, as a member of this organ, the Dominican Republic has expressed and reiterated its concern that the scope of the mission in Haiti could be reduced, and we insisted that a strong mission with broad capabilities and sufficient funding was necessary to truly bring peace and lasting stability to Haiti. Today the situation in our brother country, far from improving, is worsening.”
2023-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9247 (2023) · source
“But when the flow of people does not occur within legal channels, in an orderly and safe manner, it implies political, social, economic and security risks, and it is difficult to guarantee the corresponding rights. Many of the Governments represented here, particularly the permanent five members of the Council, even as high- income countries, have also shown deep concern about the difficulty of adequately managing growing waves of irregular migration. Imagine that challenge in the Dominican-Haitian context, given Haiti’s humanitarian and institutional crisis. We therefore clarify once again that the Dominican Government is compelled to take the necessary measures to curb any impact that Haiti’s violence and institutional deterioration might have on our territory.”
2023-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9247 (2023) · source
“As formalizing adequate border management systems with shared responsibility has become impossible, the border has become a source of problems, such as human trafficking, trafficking in arms and illicit substances, as well as the smuggling of goods — scourges that our Government fights tooth and nail, with the help of our international partners, but under increasingly difficult conditions. The governance of such a border is virtually unmanageable when one side is unable to guarantee the rule of law. There is also the challenge of providing basic services to the irregular migrant population and its impact on the social policies of the Dominican State. This reality is not motivated by an anti-immigrant attitude. The Dominican Republic is a net emitter of migrants, and our history is marked by human movements in both directions.”
2023-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9247 (2023) · source
“We have always recognized that a national pact leading to fair, free and transparent elections is an essential element to restore stability in Haiti through the legitimacy of its authorities. However, we must emphasize that this national pact and these elections must be accompanied by an urgent process of pacification, something that is not in sight today. We reiterate, without flippancy and with the utmost firmness, that our neighbour’s situation represents not only a source of consternation for us, but a national security threat to the Dominican Republic. We are the only country that shares a land border with Haiti, on a relatively small island. Our economies and trade are intertwined. Haitians are the main immigrants to the Dominican Republic.”
2023-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9247 (2023) · source
“What are the real prospects that the Security Council will finally take action on the protracted Haitian crisis on the basis of the concrete proposals in the hands of this organ? The Dominican Government is aware of the questionable legacy of previous United Nations missions in Haiti and understands the legitimate need to consider and adequately plan any response in order to avoid past mistakes and, above all, to avoid a solution that ignores the will of the Haitians. But, as direct witnesses of the human tragedy in the neighbouring country, we also know that every minute of waiting means further disruption of the situation and suffering for innocent citizens.”
2023-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9247 (2023) · source
“The case before us today, the Haitian crisis, is now a recurring theme since its emergence last year and, despite the attention given to it, is still awaiting a positive outcome in terms of peace and harmony in Haiti. On 21 October 2022, the Council adopted resolution 2653 (2022), which established a Sanctions Committee for those who finance the criminal organizations that sow violence and chaos in Haiti (see S/PV.9159). However, the main demand of the Haitian authorities, endorsed by the Secretary-General, the deployment of a robust force to assist the Haitian National Police in putting an end to the appalling violence affecting that country, remains without a road map.”
2023-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9247 (2023) · source
“Mr. Álvarez Gil (Dominican Republic) (spoke in Spanish): I take this opportunity to express to the representative of Gabon our condolences for the regrettable passing of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Michael Moussa Adamo, and we ask him to convey our condolences to his family. We thank all of the briefers for their presentations this morning. In particular, we thank Special Representative Helen La Lime for her tireless work. We also thank and congratulate Ecuador, who is taking on the role of co-penholder on this important issue, alongside the United States — they can count on our support. In this new year, it is our hope that the many outstanding issues can find definitive answers.”
2023-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9247 (2023) · source
“In our opinion, the threshold of good intentions has been crossed. We urge the Council to implement, as soon as possible, the recommendation of resolution 2645 (2022) of building a multinational force in support of the Haitian National Police, as that is the only viable way in the short term to redeem the Haitian people from their current horrendous situation and thereby bring well-deserved peace of mind to our America. Finally, we wish to bid farewell to Mexico and thank Ambassador Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez and Mexico, as a member of the Security Council, for all their efforts as co-penholders of this issue of such vital importance for our country and for our region.”
2022-12-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9233 (2022) · source
“First of all, the necessary conditions must be created on the ground in order to make such dialogue and consultation possible. Our Government has therefore expressed its emphatic support for the position of the Secretary-General, António Guterres, that while aid for police training is being consolidated, a robust force is needed, capable of restoring peace and putting an end to the violence unleashed by armed gangs, infiltrated by political and economic power. We recognize that resolutions 2645 (2022) and 2653 (2022) have borne their first fruit through the imposition of bilateral sanctions against those who finance the gangs. We now hope that in January the 2653 Sanctions Committee and the Panel of Experts mandated in those resolutions will begin their work in order to more effectively prosecute the criminals.”
2022-12-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9233 (2022) · source
“However, as President Luis Abinader Corona has expressed on repeated occasions, the Dominican Republic cannot shoulder the Haitian crisis alone. The Haitian Government and the Haitian National Police are making considerable efforts to regain control of their territory. However, the task requires the cooperation of all States represented here. We know and insist that the solution to the Haitian crisis can come only from the Haitian people and their leaders through tenacious dialogue and lasting political consultation. We welcome the announcement made just now by Minister Généus. We hope that the dialogue will bear fruit and continue to spread, but today Haiti cannot do it alone, as the most senior Haitian authorities have repeated on various occasions.”
2022-12-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9233 (2022) · source
“That fuel is destined for hospitals, supermarkets, free zones, agro-industries, banks, embassies of third countries, some of which are represented on the Security Council, and international organizations operating in Haiti, such as the United Nations. We have also received and responded to requests for security support for the transport of diplomatic personnel from other countries and international organizations in Haiti — not to mention the provision of health services to tens of thousands of Haitians who come to seek them in our public network due to the impossibility of accessing them in their own country. For example, 32.4 per cent of births in our public hospitals are of Haitian migrants. Moreover, those services are provided free of charge.”
2022-12-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9233 (2022) · source
“Against that tragic backdrop, how can we expect to distribute ballots for the long-demanded elections in Haiti? How can we conceive of a nation surviving a constant siege of death, sexual violence and kidnappings? To the best of our ability, the Dominican Republic is doing its part to support our neighbour. For example, since the closure of the Varreux fuel terminal, our country has been facilitating the supply of fuel for the maintenance of some basic services in Haiti. In various operations between October and mid-December, at the request of the Haitian authorities, we facilitated the purchase of hundreds of thousands of gallons of diesel, gasoline and fuel oil.”
2022-12-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9233 (2022) · source
“According to our sources, in the Port-au-Prince area, virtually all babies in incubators died, as did most of the people in need of oxygen. There is now sufficient evidence to attribute the recent cholera outbreak to that fuel shortage, which interrupted the supply of drinking water by Haiti’s national water company, DINEPA. Let us recall that the original cholera epidemic in Haiti, in 2010, spread to other countries of the region, such as the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Mexico. Given that situation, we ask ourselves: If violence makes it difficult to deliver vaccines and fuel, how can food be delivered to some 5 million people at risk of acute food insecurity in 2023, including some 2 million children and adolescents, of whom approximately 250,000 are acutely malnourished?”
2022-12-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9233 (2022) · source
“Data has been presented ad nauseam in the Council reflecting the terrible violations to which the Haitian people have been subjected by the criminal gangs that control a large part of the territory, including 60 per cent of Port-au-Prince. To those misfortunes we now add a cholera outbreak and widespread famine. A few days ago, a shipment of 1.2 million vaccines arrived in Haiti to combat the outbreak of a strain of cholera that is even more virulent than the original one, which killed at least 2,000 people in just a few months. However, violence is again hampering their proper distribution. Three months ago, criminal gangs blocked the Varreux port terminal, preventing the distribution of fuel and leaving much of the country without power.”
2022-12-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9233 (2022) · source
“Mr. Álvarez Gil (Dominican Republic) (spoke in Spanish): We recognize the designation of Gabon as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2653 (2022), concerning Haiti. We would like to thank Ambassador Biang for his briefing in that capacity, wish him success in his sensitive and important duties and pledge the support of the Government of the Dominican Republic. I also wish to thank Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, Ms. Helen La Lime, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti, Haitian Foreign Minister Jean Victor Généus, and Ambassador Rae of Canada for their participation today.”
2022-12-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9233 (2022) · source
“It must be addressed with the urgency it deserves. There is no time to waste. We again call upon the Security Council to use all the resources and means at its disposal to reverse the situation and prevent the effects of the crisis from spreading beyond the borders of our neighbouring country. Eleven million Haitians demand a response from the only multilateral Organization that has the mandate and responsibility to provide it. It is clear to us that the principal mandate of the Security Council is to maintain international peace and security. However, that mandate will never be delivered if a citizen, a human being, cannot give a neighbour a brotherly embrace, in peace, as is the case in Haiti today. That is a key part of the human spirit.”
2022-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9153 (2022) · source
“As we have already stated, all efforts to achieve peace in that country must be accompanied by an inclusive political process, led by the Haitians themselves, in order to bring about the necessary national unity to address the root causes of the protracted crisis. However, we are at a turning point. The priority is to achieve peace and deliver as much humanitarian aid as possible to alleviate the suffering of the Haitian people. Meanwhile, in view of the alarming health situation and given how easily and quickly diseases naturally spread, our country implements health programmes and conducts active epidemiological surveillance at its borders, along with other measures to protect the people of the Dominican Republic from health threats. We face an unprecedented humanitarian and security crisis in Haiti.”
2022-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9153 (2022) · source
“Similarly, we strongly support a sanctions regime and an arms embargo, adopted by the Security Council, against individuals and institutions, as our Government has already implemented. As if those woes were not enough, there is now a new cholera outbreak in Haiti, which could mean thousands more lives lost. Given the way in which cholera spreads and the disastrous effects it has had in the recent past, the international community must take swift action. In the light of the tragic situation, the Haitian authorities and people await an effective response that will provide some hope of relief from the disastrous consequences they now experience.”
2022-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9153 (2022) · source
“In the light of what we all already know, it is now reasonable to expect that the Security Council will respond favourably to the repeated requests for action, in particular the request of the Haitian authorities themselves, addressed to the Council and the international community, for urgent assistance to curb the excesses, abuses and crimes committed by armed gangs. Those crimes seriously affect the welfare of the Haitian people, depriving them of access to food and basic health services, which, according to reports of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti, victimize women and children in particular, as Ambassador La Lime told us today. Our country has already expressed its support in response to the request for assistance from the Prime Minister of Haiti, and we have acted accordingly.”
2022-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9153 (2022) · source
“Mr. Álvarez Gil (Dominican Republic) (spoke in Spanish): Much has been said and written about the crisis that threatens the existence of a large part of the Haitian population, who are stoically enduring the terrifying normalization of violence and deterioration of the environment and the health sector, which has shocked the international community. We thank the members of the Security Council for their commitment to responding to this emergency situation, and the Secretary-General for his considerable efforts in starting the process to respond to the Haitian crisis.”
2022-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9153 (2022) · source
“In conclusion, I wish to recall what President Luis Abinader Corona said last year before the General Assembly at its seventy-sixth session: “Haiti can wait no longer. We must act responsibly, and we must act now.””
2022-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9136 (2022) · source
“Therefore, I repeat before the Security Council: international cooperation with the efforts of Haiti and Haiti’s authorities is vital if we are to bring stability and peace to the people of Haiti, its neighbours and the region. That is our only goal. The human suffering in Haiti today is indescribable. We have heard at this meeting about some of the terrible violations affecting the most vulnerable in Haiti above all. For approximately 10 days, the main oil terminal, Varreux, which Minister Généus referred to, with millions of gallons of diesel, gasoline, kerosene and liquefied petroleum gas, has been blocked by large trenches, barricades, trucks and trailers, and the police have not been able to effectively remove them during this entire time. Around 400,000 people live around that fuel terminal. We must avoid a tragedy at all costs.”
2022-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9136 (2022) · source
“But the almost non-existent progress in that direction demands from the international community, as expressed by Secretary-General António Guterres and a position that our country strongly supports, that “while strengthening assistance for training its police, there is a need for a robust force that is capable of restoring peace and putting an end to the violence unleashed by armed gangs, which have been infiltrated by the political and economic power”. The Dominican Republic, in reiterating its usual spirit of cooperation and friendship with the Haitian Government and people, also reiterates its conviction that the only lasting and sustainable response to the Haitian crisis must come from the Haitians themselves.”
2022-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9136 (2022) · source
“Unfortunately, that process has so far not succeeded and, for that reason, the Dominican Government considers that stabilization efforts in Haiti must be focused, as President Luis Abinader Corona has said on numerous occasions, on immediate pacification and political dialogue as the only adequate means to confront violence and chaos, as stipulated in paragraph 10 of the resolution, enhancing security support for the Haitian National Police’s efforts to combat high levels of gang violence.”
2022-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9136 (2022) · source
“Mr. Álvarez Gil (Dominican Republic) (spoke in Spanish): On behalf of the Government of the Dominican Republic, I thank the delegation of China for requesting this meeting. I also thank all the briefers for their statements at this meeting. We also thank the Security Council for its resolution 2645 (2022), adopted in July, which extended the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) for one year. However, as I already said before the General Assembly (see A/77/PV.7), the results expected of BINUH are contingent upon the Haitians reaching a national agreement as a starting point to combat and neutralize the gangs, and secondly, to ensure the holding of elections as soon as circumstances permit.”
2022-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9136 (2022) · source