History: Ueh hails Haiti’s joining CARICOM Slavery Reparations Commission as ‘great victory’

P-au-P, August 2, 2024 (AlterPresse) — Tribute to the President of the State University of Haiti (Ueh) Inclusion of Haiti in the Caribbean Community Compensation Commission (CARICOM) is associated with slavery, in a note seen by online agency AlterPresse.

Archbishop Youhe praised the “great victory of the world’s first black republic (Haiti)”.

He congratulated Edgard Leblanc Fils, coordinator of operations of the Presidential Transition Council (Cpt), and Dominique Dupuy, minister of foreign affairs and worship (Maec), for taking seriously this issue of vital importance to the Haitian nation.

LeBlanc and Dupuy presented the National Document on Reparations and Restitution related to Slavery and Independence Debts of the 19th and 20th Centuries at the 47th Ordinary Meeting of Heads of State and Government of CARICOM Member States held in Grenada on Sunday, July 28 to Tuesday, July 30, 2024.

Ueh multidisciplinary working group addresses Haiti’s independence debt and ransoms paid in the 19th and 20th centuriesUhé announced that he would serve as a member of the Haitian National Committee within the CARICOM Restoration Commission.

“It (Ueh’s multidisciplinary working group) was already working to represent our country with dignity within this important regional committee,” he recalled.

The main objectives of the working group are to carry out all studies and investigations, improve and strengthen the file, take the necessary steps to complete the calculation of the claim amount, inform and raise awareness of the Haitian State and the organized sector regarding the different elements of the file.

In the interests of national and international public opinion, the various contents of the document should also be disseminated and publicized through different national groups at all levels of local authorities and a truly national mobilization should be carried out.

This multidisciplinary think tank should be able to identify all domestic and foreign actresses and actors who are capable of promoting this issue and take the necessary measures to solve this problem within the framework of a large alliance of domestic and international actors and actresses. implementation. (emb rc April 2, 2024 3:35 pm)

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