Chancellor rejects allegations against the country of Canadian newspaper

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Morales Troncoso, refuted claims by a Canadian, informative way in which considers "it distorted" the nature of the relationship that keeps the Dominican Republic with neighboring Haiti, as well as internal policies normal and regular in a nation sovereign.

The Ministry today issued a communiqué in which, in a letter to The Globe and Mail newspaper in response to the editorial entitled "Is unjust deprive a los Dominicans descendants of Haitians of his citizenship", the Chancellor Carlos Morales Troncoso said that Dominican Republic and Haiti have a normal, harmonious and close, relationship features that extend the Haitian citizens who live and work in the Dominican territory, and are protected under the same rights as all under the Dominican Constitution.

Indicated that the investigation and possible cancellation u000afuture, of the civil registration, such as certificates of birth documents, in any way violate the international obligations of human rights undertaken by the Dominican Republic, if those affected, are entitled to a nationality different.

Morales Troncoso said that not can be asked to Dominican Republic to load the burden involved in the human and economic costs of the serious situation facing the Haitian people, for which they see as their best solution emigration to the Dominican Republic, nor nor cannot be expected to assume the consequences of the serious deficiencies that affect registry of Haiti.

Explained that you as a sovereign country, Dominican Republic is free to determine their own citizenship and the rules of migration within the limits set by law international

The Chancellor described as incorrect assertion that the country has recently changed its policy of u000acitizenship including discrimination against Haitians as a retroactive.

"The Supreme Court of Justice of the Dominican Republic has ruled on several occasions on the issue of the children of illegal immigrants, whatever their origin, which confirms that if those children born of parents legally in transit are excluded automatically obtain nationality, the children of those who cannot justify its legal entry or stay in the country cannot benefit of one higher law", pointed out.

Pointed out that the "apatriación" here is not in discussion, because article 11 of the Haitian Constitution provides that "everyone born of a Haitian father or Haitian mother who are Haitians of origin and have never renounced their nationality, have Haitian nationality at the time of his birth".

Added that administrative measures implemented by the Central Electoral Board u000aDominican since 2007, to detect and correct the high number of irregularities affecting the Civil Registry, have been considered legitimate by the Supreme Court.

Also highlighted "the inaccuracies of the journalistic publication" as regards the general hearing convened by the Inter-American Commission on human rights in October 2011, during which a group of non-profit organizations stated that the Central Electoral Board of the Dominican Republic had not responded to its request for information with respect to 417 cases of people allegedly affected by the suspension of the issuance of new copies administrative decisions of birth certificates, the subject of an investigation of their documents.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs stated that while these hearings should, by their nature, be individually for each applicant presenting individual cases, the delegation u000aDominican in the audience replied confirming that the Central Electoral Board received only 120 forms of records of the NGOs, of which 80 were duly investigated and answered and 20 were returned due to lack of supporting documentation.

Reported that the Commission has not issued any official opinion thereon, nor on the legality of the Dominican law and that the Junta Electoral Central, in fulfilment of a mandate to investigate alleged irregularities in the Civil Registry, has subjected these to the scrutiny of the courts.

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