adminSANTO DOMINGO – The Dominican Republic has recalled its ambassador to Haiti for consultations and suspended a bilateral dialogue in a dispute over its stripping citizenship rights of Dominicans of Haitian descent, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.A regional body called Caricom, or the Caribbean Community, suspended on Tuesday the Dominican Republic’s application to join it, and Haiti voted in favour of this decision.
In late September the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic stripped citizenship from more than 250 000 Dominican-born offspring of undocumented Haitians.
Caricom said it was acting until the Dominican Republic took measures to resolve the conflict with Haiti.
“We are forced to recall our ambassador to Haiti for consultations to address this issue with the due care it deserves,” deputy foreign minister Jose Manuel Trullols told the Haitian ambassador in Santo Domingo, Fritz Cineas, the foreign ministry said in a statement. — AFP.
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