U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader have met behind closed doors to discuss human rights, economic prosperity and regional security
The U.S. secretary of state and the leader of the Dominican Republic held private talks Friday on a range of issues, from human rights , economic prosperity and regional security. However, the crisis in violence-wrecked Haiti dominated the discussions.Blinken said he spoke with Dominican President Luis Abinader about the latter's concerns regarding Haiti, which shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic.
Abinader told reporters that his administration is concerned over the apparent lack of resources for the mission and the thousands of inmates who escaped after gangs raided Haiti’s two biggest prisons earlier this year Haiti’s crisis has caused a surge in migrants trying to enter the Dominican Republic, Abinader said, adding that they’re overwhelming schools and hospitals.government has largely closed the airspace to Haiti“The foundation for progress in Haiti has to be security,” Blinken said. “This has to be something that the authorities, the state and ultimately the Haitian people control, not the gangs.”
Both Blinken and Abinader said they are pushing to normalize relations between the Dominican Republic and its neighbor.Blinken noted that the Dominican Republic has the largest economy in the Caribbean and one of the fastest growing in Latin America. In a boost to that growth, Blinken announced the first phase of a $3 million supply-chain investment via USAID to improve workforce training and build industrial parks in the Caribbean country.
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