Weekly Report - 09 January 2014 (WR-14-01)

The governments of Haiti and the Dominican Republic (DR) sought to put months of bilateral diplomatic tension behind them on 7 January during a meeting in the Haitian border town of Ouanaminthe (Juana Méndez). The talks covered migration, environment, trade and security issues. The most significant issue to be broached was the controversial ‘nationality’ ruling by the Dominican constitutional tribunal (TC) last September affecting three generations of Dominicans of Haitian descent.

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