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P-au-P, July 31, 2024 (AlterPresse) – Haiti has officially joined the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Slavery Reparations Commission, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship (Maec) reported in a press release on July 30, 2024, the online agency AlterPresse noted.
Haiti’s accession to the Commission takes place within the framework of the participation of the Transition Team in the 47th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the CARICOM Member States, which takes place in Grenada from Sunday, July 28 to Tuesday, July 30, 2024.
“One of the highlights of our participation in this summit was undoubtedly the announcement of Haiti’s accession to the CARICOM Reparations Commission,” said Dominique Dupuy, president of Maec, which is involved in this effort, and whose operations coordinator is the Presidential Transition Council’s (Cpt), Edgar Le Blanc-Fiers.
She declared that the decision, which was warmly welcomed within the General Assembly, “now rightly places Haiti at the centre of this debate and this important work being done in the (Caribbean) region”.
The initiative to join the CARICOM Reparations Commission follows a meeting last week between Professor Fritz Deshomme and Dominique Dupuy, presidents of the State University of Haiti (Ueh). Establishment of a working group within Ueh to be responsible for “compensation and restitution related to slavery and independence debts from the 19th and 20th centuries”we read in the press release.
The working group was set up by President Youhe and brings together academics and civil society figures from Haiti and abroad.
He will serve on the Haitian National Commission within the CARICOM Reparations Commission, which is particularly involved in the important work of the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.
A coalition of about twenty non-governmental organizations (NGOs) Demands that France repay billions of dollars paid for Haiti’s independenceAccording to the website of the French newspaper Libération, the new call was issued at the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (Pfpad), which was held in Geneva (Switzerland) from Tuesday, April 16 to Friday, April 19, 2024.
France must repay the Caribbean island nation more than $100 billion (Editor’s note: 1.00 USD = +140.00 Gourdes; 1 Euro = 143.00 Gourdes; 1 Canadian Dollar = 97.00 Gourdes; 1 Dominican Peso = 2.40 Gourdes today) that the country agreed to pay after independence in 1804, according to the organizations cited by Liberation newspaper.
In a study published in February 2023, The New York Times estimated Haiti’s debt at between $21 and $115 billion. (emb rc 2024-04-07 31 11:25)
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