Tuesday, at the 46th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), in Santo Domingo, the Foreign Minister of Haiti, Pierrot Délienne formally requested at the first plenary meeting of the General Assembly, the assistance of the OAS and the participation of each Member States to carry out the next elections in Haiti to be held October 9, 2016 and January 8, 2017, regarding: the resumption of the two rounds of presidential elections, the election of the third of the Senate, the second round of complementary legislative and local elections https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-17658-haiti-flash-electoral-timetable-2016-2017-official.html

Chancellor Délienne pointed out "[...] we always need the assistance [of the OAS] it is not a financial assistance that we seek, this is the legitimacy of our elections with the support of institutions and friendly countries, as has been done and as is done in many countries right now, this is what we are looking [...]"

He recalled that the electoral timetable was already prepared and published https://www.haitilibre.com/docs/calendrier-CEP-2016-2017.pdf and affirmed that the next elections will be "free", "honest" and "transparent".

Note that in a note dated June 8, on the elections in Haiti, Luis Almagro Secretary General of the OAS had been open to assist Haiti in its elections and had declared that his institution was ready to "continue to play a positive role in the electoral process." https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-17686-haiti-elections-oas-will-remains-alongside-haiti-for-the-elections.html

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