Dominican Republic's top diplomat to attend Haiti meetings at UN

3/7/2024 6:02

        The Dominican Republic announced that its foreign minister will travel to New York on Tuesday to participate in a United Nations Security Council meeting
        convened to discuss the situation in neighboring Haiti.
        
        During his trip, Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez will also meet with Haiti's new Prime Minister Garry Conille and his foreign minister, Dominique Dupuy, who have been in the United States this week meeting with multilateral lenders.
        
        The two Caribbean countries, which share the island of Hispaniola, have a long history of tense relations.
        
        The Dominican Republic has argued it bears the brunt of insecurity in Haiti, where armed gangs concentrated in the capital have displaced over half a million
        residents and pushed nearly 5 million people into acute food insecurity.
        
        The Dominican government has built a wall on its border with Haiti where it has reinforced patrols and last year deported over 200,000 Haitian migrants, prompting criticisms from the United Nations and human rights groups.