Chancellor rejects newspaper against the country trials

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Carlos Morales Troncoso, yesterday refuted the assertions of a Canadian information means that in his view recently distorted the nature of the relationship between Dominican Republic and Haiti, as well as internal policies normal and regular in a nation sovereign.

In a letter to the newspaper "The Globe and Mail", in response to the editorial entitled "it is unjust to deprive descendants Dominicans of Haitian citizenship," the Chancellor pointed out 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 research and the possible future cancellation of documents of the civil registry, such as certificates of birth, in any way u000aviolates international commitments in the field of human rights undertaken by Dominican Republic, if those affected have the right to a nationality different.

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expressed that not can be asked to Dominican Republic to load with the weight of the human and economic costs for the serious situation facing the Haitian people, for which see as their best solution migration Dominican Republic, nor can be expected to assume the consequences of the serious deficiencies that affect the civil registry of Haiti. He 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 considers incorrect to say that the country has recently changed its policy of citizenship to include discrimination against Haitians retroactively.

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