U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader have met behind closed doors to discuss human rights, economic prosperity and regional security. Blinken met with Abinader on Friday after landing in neighboring Haiti the previous day to support a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya to fight rampaging gangs there.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken , left, and Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader hold a joint news conference at the National Palace in Santo Domingo, Sept. 6, 2024. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives a press conference at the end of his one-day visit to Haiti at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti , Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. U.S.
Abinader told reporters that his administration is concerned over the apparent lack of resources for the mission and the thousands of inmates who escaped after gangs raided Haiti’s two biggest prisons earlier this year Haiti’s crisis has caused a surge in migrants trying to enter the Dominican Republic, Abinader said, adding that they’re overwhelming schools and hospitals.government has largely closed the airspace to HaitiThe US is considering the creation of a UN peacekeeping operation for Haiti to fight gangs“The foundation for progress in Haiti has to be security,” Blinken said. “This has to be something that the authorities, the state and ultimately the Haitian people control, not the gangs.
Both Blinken and Abinader said they are pushing to normalize relations between the Dominican Republic and its neighbor.Blinken noted that the Dominican Republic has the largest economy in the Caribbean and one of the fastest growing in Latin America. In a boost to that growth, Blinken announced the first phase of a $3 million supply-chain investment via USAID to improve workforce training and build industrial parks in the Caribbean country.
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