Santo Domingo.- A delegation of leaders of various Dominican political parties, government officials and academicswill meet in Washington DC, USA, with several US lawmakersas well as with certain organizations interested in the subject, to discuss the crisis situation in Haiti and its impact on the Dominican Republic.

The Commission, appointed by President Luis Abinaderis composed of the president of the Dominican Academy of History, Juan Daniel Balcacer; the administrative vice-minister of the Presidency and secretary of inter-party relations of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), Andrés Lugo Riskwith the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Secretary of the PRM, Jose Julio Gomez.

It is also composed of the Deputy lilac albuquerqueof the Reform Christian Social Party (PRSC) and former President of the Chamber of Deputies; Pelegrin Castillovice-president of the Progressive National Force (FNP); Maritza Lopezpresident of the Liberal Action Party (PAL), adviser to the Senate and former ambassador to Israel, Alexander de la Rosa.

The agenda in Washington is organized and coordinated by the Representative in the United States House of Representatives, Adriano Espaillat and his team. Individual meetings with each of the following representatives have been confirmed: Bill Pascrell, Susan Wild, Frederica Wilson, Mario Díaz-Balart, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Yvette Clarke, María Elvira Salazar, Joaquín Castro and Maxwell Frost, as well as with Senator Bob Menéndez, and to be confirmed, with Senator Marco Rubio.

The delegation will visit the J. Perry Center of the US Department of Defense, where its director Paul Angelo will receive them. They will also visit the American Jewish Committee (AJC), where they will meet its directors Davis Harris and Dina Siegel.

Other commissions will travel in the coming weeks hold similar meetings Ottawa, Canada, with the authorities of that country; For Brussels and Paris, to the European and French parliaments respectively; For Guatemala, in the Central American Parliament; For South America and Africa.

For four months, party representatives, academics and members of the various levels of government have been working, in response to a call from the President on February 27 to the National Assembly, in the development of a national pact to deal with the effects of the Haitian crisis in the Dominican Republic in economic, migration, foreign policy and border control aspects.

“I ask everyone the responsibility to separate the Haitian problem from our partisan struggle and that we reach a great national agreement, a country pact, which commits us to our positions and which gives a unanimous response in the defense and protection of our sovereignty, were the words of President Abinader in his speech on accountability.

For each of these thematic areas, work tables attended by nearly thirty political organizations, the Government and dozens of Creole academics and specialists in the subject.

A nice proposal is preparedwith broad levels of agreement, requiring only a few more meetings to reach a total consensus which allows the definitive signature of the national pact.