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  1. “What is important is to deliver a job well done and to provide the country with a legitimate Government and freely chosen elected representatives as soon as possible and in a calm climate conducive to investment. I thank members for allowing me to address the Council this morning to express the concerns of the Haitian people and of the High Transitional Council.”

    2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9449 (2023) · source

  2. “Recruiting qualified technicians is essential if the High Transitional Council is to achieve its objectives and deliver, for both its own people and the world, the results it has been working on since its appointment. The members of the High Transitional Council invite the States Members of the United Nations to join them in their determination to restore the population’s confidence and to finalize a plan to combat the institutionalized banditry that, without further delay, must be reduced to no more than a bad memory for the entire Haitian nation. The High Transitional Council is determined to honour its commitments to its nation and encourages dialogue with the political players. Nevertheless, the time for action is now. The Council must decide which side of history it wants to be on.”

    2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9449 (2023) · source

  3. “I know that the future is behind me, and I do not know how much longer I have to live. But I am determined to devote the rest of my days to forging a better Haiti, a better place to live for all Haitians. And it would be a step in the right direction if the Council decided to join us in our efforts. The High Transitional Council is the product of the exceptional agreement of 21 December 2022, which brought together thousands of votes in favour of the reconstitution of certain State organs. Its tasks include assessing the changes to be made within public administration, participating in the formation of a new Government, working towards the adoption of a new constitution and the formation of a credible electoral council. All of that will require the restoration of law and order.”

    2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9449 (2023) · source

  4. “The States Members of the United Nations must also consider creating a major fund to rebuild road, legal, hospital, school, university and agricultural infrastructure. Otherwise, we run the risk of reliving the same tragic experience in the medium term. I would like to take this opportunity to remind the Council that the Republic of Haiti has always been in favour of peaceful coexistence between peoples, whatever their faith. I reaffirm my conviction that peoples must also be able to freely enjoy all the common resources of the territories they share, while taking into account the challenges of environmental protection. The High Transitional Council will continue to support all efforts to ensure that agreements and conventions are respected, while advocating dialogue, peace and tolerance. I am 82 years old.”

    2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9449 (2023) · source

  5. “I want to assure the Council that the High Transitional Council, driven by unparalleled nationalism, is ready to support any United Nations initiative that will enable the Haitian people to resume the normal course of their lives. The foreign troops supporting the Haitian National Police are being awaited by a large section of the population made up of the real victims. While it is true that their interventions cannot be discriminatory, their efforts must immediately send clear signals of protection to those who are the victims of the destructive work of businessmen who make a profit, to say the least, from the arms and ammunition trade. And let it not be the other way round, as has happened in previous cases. It is not enough to want to recover territories occupied by gangs.”

    2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9449 (2023) · source

  6. “It is that accumulation that expresses the tragedy of my country, which has been brought to the Council’s attention. Listen at last to the voice of the people. I hope that this brief presentation will convince the Council that it is time for the aid that has been promised and endorsed to materialize. It is also the Haiti of the events of 1804 that is expressing itself through me; it is the patriots who remain in the country against all odds, determined to change the situation; it is those who are working together to bring water to their land in order to improve their living conditions. That is the Haiti that continues to build, to hope and to remain dignified. We must support their cause. I hope that the Security Council will soon put its words into action.”

    2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9449 (2023) · source

  7. “They are the women who end up becoming street workers for the pleasure of the untouchables who finance the gangs. They are young graduates whose hopes are dashed by plans to leave for greener pastures, when they do not become antennae for the lucrative business that gangsterism has become. I urge the Council to not remain indifferent to the frustrations of idle young people, condemned to begging, corruption, debauchery, delinquency and the guilty intoxication of life in a criminal gang. It is in the face of that reality that resolution 2700 (2023) brings a breath of hope to a people mired in the morass of insecurity. It is suffering Haiti that is expressing itself through my voice. The miseries of the population are not all of the same nature and do not have the same intensity, but they manifest themselves at the same time.”

    2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9449 (2023) · source

  8. “They are the sick who succumb to their injuries, simply because hospitals are inaccessible. They are the shopkeepers who are stripped of their only means of subsistence, their goods having been destroyed, looted and burnt by the gangs. They are the pregnant women who die because their doctor has been kidnapped or has been unable to reach them because of the prevailing insecurity. They are the upright policemen who note, powerless, the inadequacy of numbers and the paucity of resources, feeling overwhelmed by the weakness of the force. They are the fathers murdered, leaving their offspring exposed to the temptations of easy money, led by hunger and violence. They are the young girls and boys raped with impunity, bruised and battered.”

    2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9449 (2023) · source

  9. “I am pleased to be here this morning as the spokesperson for the millions of Haitians who follow the debates on Security Council decisions online. As the Council is no doubt aware, the High Transitional Council, which I have the honour of presiding over, has been hit hard by the kidnapping of its Secretary-General, Mr. Anthony Virginie Saint- Pierre, on Wednesday 18 October 2023, in the middle of the street on his way to work. We do not want to call anyone out yet, let alone any particular group, but his kidnapping is certainly no coincidence. I ask the Council’s indulgence if it is disturbed by what I have to say. Haitians can each explain the tragedies of their lives with humility and simplicity. They are the thousands of children who are deprived of the bread of education, unable to get to their classrooms.”

    2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9449 (2023) · source