CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana – Tuesday, 5 March 2024:
“As Chairman of CARICOM, I wish to make the following Statement on behalf of the Community in relation to the development in Haiti.
“CARICOM has been singularly focused on the events unfolding in Haiti over the last few days. The expanded Bureau has been meeting separately with Prime Minister Henry, the Stakeholders in Haiti, and our International Partners, to bring resolution to this highly complex matter, where persons’ lives and livelihoods are at stake. The complexity requires us in these consultations to ensure that a Haitian-led and a Haitian-owned solution may be achieved as soon as possible. We remain deeply engaged and will update on the outcome of our deliberations as soon as practicable. Thank you”
Statement by H.E. Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, Chair of CARICOM, on Haiti:
Having foreign forces in Haiti to quell the internal violence and anarchy is unlikely to work in my most forthright opinion.
The solutions to all the problems can only come from within, the Haitians themselves. This will take compromise, vigorous negotiations and tough choices. One of the things that will help to lower the tensions is the stepping down of the US installed president. Haitians desire to vote for a head of state of their choice.