Weekly Report - 05 March 2015 (WR-15-09)

The foreign ministry of the Dominican Republic announced the closure of all of its consulates in Haiti on 4 March. The Dominican foreign minister, Andrés Navarro, informed his Haitian peer, Pierre Duly Brutus, that he had taken the decision in order to preserve “the physical integrity” of the country’s consular staff after the invasion of the Dominican consulate in Port-au-Prince on 25 February by Haitians protesting against xenophobic attacks suffered by their countrymen in the Spanish-speaking half of Hispaniola.

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