CARICOM Secretariat — The Heads of Authorities of the Caribbean Group (CARICOM) welcome right this moment’s publication of the decree establishing the Transitional Presidential Council in Haiti. Establishing the nine-member, broad-based, politically inclusive Council alerts the opportunity of a brand new starting for Haiti.
CARICOM has supported Haiti, its sister nation, by the difficult technique of arriving at a Haitian-owned components for governance that can take the troubled nation by elections and restore the lapsed state establishments and constitutional authorities. Following on from the agreements reached in Kingston, Jamaica, on 11 March, which introduced collectively a various group of Haitian political, non-public sector, civil society and faith-based stakeholders, the Transitional Presidential Council has devised a framework setting out the creation, group and functioning of the Council, and arrived at a Political Accord that articulates the way in which ahead.
The CARICOM Heads of Authorities totally endorse the ideas of the Political Accord and pay attention to Article 16, which states, “The mission of the Presidential Council is to place Haiti again on the street to dignity, democratic legitimacy, stability and sovereignty and to make sure the right functioning of the State’s establishments.”
It is usually clear that one of many newly put in Presidential Council’s first priorities will likely be urgently addressing the safety scenario in order that Haitians can go about their each day lives in a traditional method, safely entry meals, water, and medical companies, youngsters can return to highschool, ladies can transfer round with out worry of horrific abuses, and companies can reopen.
There are nonetheless daunting challenges forward. CARICOM stands able to proceed to help the Haitian folks and their leaders as they decide their future in a sovereign method by this transitional interval on the trail to stability, safety and long-term sustainable growth for Haiti.
