(Ottawa) Canada plans to send a representative to the emergency meeting on the situation in Haiti which is to take place on Monday.
A spokesperson for the office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs indicated that Bob Rae, Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, will be present.
Caribbean leaders called Friday night for an emergency meeting Monday in Jamaica on what they called the “disastrous” situation in Haiti. They invited the United States, France, Canada, the UN and Brazil to the meeting.
Members of the Caricom regional trade bloc have been trying for months to get Haitian political actors to agree to form a transitional unity government.
But average Haitians, many of whom have been forced from their homes because of bloody street fighting, cannot wait. The problem preventing police from securing government buildings is that many Haitians have flocked there seeking refuge.
Minister Mélanie Joly declared Friday on social networks that Canada remained “concerned by the escalation of violence in Haiti [et condamnait] firmly against abuses committed by armed gangs. »