The member States of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) express their concern about the situation in the Republic of Haiti.

Its complex situation requires immediate international attention and assistance to this population, whose welfare and development are the main reasons for any action to be taken in Haiti today.

The ALBA-TCP member countries – some of which are part of the Caribbean Community – have been in communication with regional players and have closely followed the efforts led by CARICOM.

The ALBA-TCP Member States reaffirm that interventionism has historically represented a major failure for the development of the economic and social welfare of the Haitian people, thus, urging not to repeat the past mistakes, considering the serious history of foreign interventions that have caused so much structural damage to the integrity of that nation.

The Bolivarian Alliance reiterates that it is through mechanisms of effective cooperation and solidarity, the respect for sovereignty and self-determination of peoples, International Law and the guarantee of fundamental rights of the Haitian people, that will be the way to help this sister Republic overcome the difficult situation it is going through.

ALBA-TCP reaffirms its support for the sovereignty, independence revolutionary history and self-determination of the Haitian people so that, through the international cooperation and solidarity and committed to the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, our Haitian brothers and sisters can recover the peace, the dignity and the well-being they deserve.