Friday at the Jaragua Hotel in the Dominican capital, the new Chancellor Pierrot Delienne at the head of a Haitian delegation participated in the 10th bi-annual meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Community of Latin American States and the Caribbean (CELAC) https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-17042-haiti-politic-the-new-chancellor-of-haiti-in-dominican-republic.html under the Presidency pro tempore, currently held by the Dominican Republic whose term expires in January 2017.

The meeting which was attended by representatives of 33 member states, was an opportunity to assess the mandates resulting from political statements and actions adopted by the Heads of State and Government, to rule on the implementation of the CELAC Action Plan for the year 2016, to prepare the meeting of Foreign Ministers CELAC-EU planned in the Dominican Republic in October 2016 in the context of monitoring of the second Summit of Heads of State and Government of CELAC-EU and the progress made by the CELAC-China cooperation Forum.

The new Foreign Minister of Haiti, Pierrot Delienne, was well received by his peers for his first participation in a meeting of CELAC. He has not failed to reiterated the commitment of Haiti to the objectives of CELAC and supported the idea of developing a regional strategy paper, in line with the post-2015 development agenda of UN.

On the sidelines of the meeting, the Chancellor Delienne met with his Dominican counterpart, Andrés Navarro, in order to continue the dialogue on relations between the two countries, the two men agreed to revive the activities of the Joint Bilateral Commission (CMB), in the best delay.

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CELAC created February 23, 2010 at the Rio Group summit in Cancun, Mexico. It brings together 33 member countries of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of Canada and the United States. It is a multilateral political forum, which allow member countries to consult to harmonize on the long term, their public policies, an indispensable requirement for integration movement. CELAC aim to strengthen the historical ties between peoples and arrive to an articulation at sectors such as education, health, environment, economy, culture, immigration and justice.

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