GRAPH Denounces International Community's Desire to Maintain Status Quo in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE.— The Group for Reflection and Action of Haitian Parliamentarians (GRAPH) presented a damning analysis of the transitional government's management. The organization expressed outrage, it said, at how the international community seeks to perpetuate the status quo in Haiti instead of seeking real and lasting solutions to the crisis.

In a situational note, GRAPH stated that the international community, through CARICOM, is renewing dialogue with the same failed actors. GRAPH denounced this approach, which it considers sectarian, exclusive, and discriminatory on the part of CARICOM.

From the organization's perspective, the CPT violated its own roadmap by not respecting its main assigned mandate, noting the failure to establish the Government Oversight Body which was supposed to act as a true parliament during the transitional period, the worsening insecurity, endemic unemployment, the abandonment of large portions of the national territory to armed groups, and the growing humanitarian crisis with thousands of displaced persons without shelter, GRAPH wrote.

In this note, the organization denounced the way CARICOM relaunched the dialogue by excluding a large part of the country's vital and representative forces; recalling that any solution to the current crisis must necessarily involve an inclusive dialogue, involving all sectors of Haitian society without discrimination or exclusion.

The Group for Reflection and Action of Haitian Parliamentarians took the opportunity to demand its participation in any inter-Haitian dialogue initiative aimed at resolving the crisis. “Haiti cannot recover without the real participation of all its vital forces, in a patriotic surge, far from foreign agendas or arrangements between small interest groups,” it concluded.

Jean Mapou