Holy Sunday.- A new delegation appointed by President Luis Abinader, composed of representatives of political parties, government and academics, visited Canada develop a meeting program with authorities and members of various sectors on the crisis in Haiti and its impact on our country.

The commission is composed of the Administrative Vice-Minister of the Presidency, Andres Lugo Risk; the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jose Julio Gomez; the member of the Dominican Academy of Language, the writer Manuel Nunez; of the Joint Bilateral Commission DR-Haiti, the economist Julio Ortega All; the President of the Liberal Reform Party (PLR), Karina Aristy; the President of the Institutional Democratic Party (PDI), Ismael Reyes; the president of the Christian Solidarity Party (PSC), Soraya Aquino, and interim president of the Social Democratic Institutional Bloc (BRI), Jose Francisco Pena Tavarez.

The agenda in the cities of Ottawa and Montreal includes meetings with Canada’s Minister of Tourism, Soraya Martinez Ferrada; the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of Latin America, David Morrison; the legislator Greg Fergus, Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; the legislator robert oliphantParliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Canadian Opposition, Pierre Poilievre.

Meetings also take place, thanks to the collaboration of the ambassador Michelle Cohen and her teamwith the High Commissioners of the countries of the African Union and those of Caricom; with the members of Quebec, Madwa-Nika Cadet and Brigitte Garceauas well as with representatives of the Dominican communities of the two cities, with the leaders of the haitian communityand round tables with academics and university professors.

It is recalled that for several months party representatives, academics and different levels of governmentin response to a call from President Abinader on February 27 to the National Assembly, they worked on the development of a national agreement to deal with the effects of the Haitian crisis in the Dominican Republic.

In the next few days, the official announcement will be made. National Pact and the signing ceremony will take place at an event at the National Palace with the country’s political leaders, united under a broad consensus and with a great feeling of patriotic responsibilityon a subject of extraordinary importance for the present and the future of the Dominican Republic.

In the following weeks other commissions will visit Europe, South America, Central America and Africapursuing the same objective.

This is the first time that a Dominican government has deployed a diplomatic offensive of this level of historical importanceled by President Abinader and executed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Roberto Alvarez with a highly qualified team, in which the political and academic society participates.