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Haiti - Politic : Laurent Lamothe at the 6th Summit of the Americas in Colombia 15/04/2012 09:59:33
The President Martelly, regrets not being able to make this important travel and will be represented at this 6th Summit by Laurent Lamothe, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, also Prime Minister-designate. The President Martelly will not the only absent from this summit, Hugo Chávez (Venezuela President) also canceled his visit for health reasons and Rafael Correa (President of Ecuador) and Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua's President) decided on their side, to boycott this 6thSummit in Solidarity with Cuba... The Summit of the Americas organized by the Organization of American States (OAS) is this year dedicated to the integration and the economic prosperity of the region, which will allow Laurent Lamothe to promote the concept of Business Diplomacy for the development of Haiti. Several issues will be discussed at this Sixth Summit among others : the controversial proposal to decriminalize cocaine advocated by Guatemala or the idea of a reintegration of Cuba in the Summit of the Americas, provided that this country adheres to the Democratic Charter of the organization. Laurent Lamothe declared "[...] We are very happy to be here and we have several meetings that we will do with various leaders of the region and this will be an opportunity for us, once again, to reaffirm our solidarity and brotherhood to several countries in the zone [...] we will work diligently so that we can make land various aid and assistance that many of these countries had promised [...] we will ask them, so that we have a lasting and sustainable development that they helps us in the investment strategy for Haiti..." "Yesterday we arrived at the Summit of the Americas, we participated in a meeting with all the Foreign Ministers to discuss the agenda and of what the Presidents should review and sign [...] we had a tripartite meeting between the Foreign Minister of Venezuela and the one of Argentina to discuss a trilateral agreement with Haiti as part of agricultural building. Venezuela will finance the purchase of tractors for our peasants, as part of the agricultural recovery and allow our peasants to have the necessary equipment for a better production. Then we attended a reception where were present the President Obama and other Presidents and Foreign Ministers. This morning [Saturday] we started with a meeting with members of Caricom, we will then have a second meeting with Caricom and Canada for the opening and the launch of the session of the Summit of the Americas [...]" After the meeting with Caricom and Canada, the Chancellor Lamothe declared "we return from an important meeting between th Caricom and Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada, we discussed several topics of general interest [...] Caricom has formally requested [to Candada] to renew their financial support for the representation of Caricom in Haiti in order to share with Canada and Caricom, Haiti's integration into this organization. Haiti seeks to have much more international partners, business partners for investment and to do so, the representative office of the Caricom in Haiti, working on aspects of our country's competitiveness, to ensure that Haiti is ready to attract foreign investment, especially investment of Caricom countries. So we have worked on this, we have promoted Haiti and in this sense, Prime Minister of Canada was very pleased. Globally, I think that the meeting went well, and now, we will go to the official opening of the Summit of America where we will do our best to defend the interests of Haiti [...]"  The President of Colombia, concerned at the highest point by Haiti https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-5406-haiti-politic-the-president-of-colombia-concerned-at-the-highest-point-by-haiti.html SL/ HaitiLibre
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