The Legislative Palace of Haiti. (Photo via MINUSTAH)
The United Nations and its international partners have welcomed the formation of a new Government in Haiti one week after the country’s Parliament became “dysfunctional” due to its failure to hold elections within its constitutional framework.
The Secretary-General’s Special Representative in Haiti, Sandra Honoré, and other members of the international community represented in the “Core Group” – comprising the Ambassadors of Brazil, Canada, France, Spain, United States, and the European Union, as well as the Special Representative of the Organization of American States – today welcomed the installation of Prime Minister Evans Paul, the formation of the Government, as well as the establishment of the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP).
Sandra Honoré, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti. (UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras)
In a press release, Ms. Honoré and the “Core Group” encouraged the new Government to create “the political and security conditions necessary to guarantee the organization of fair, credible and inclusive elections” and said that the Group’s members were “pleased” that the newly established CEP could pursue its activities in “full independence, with a view to guaranteeing the transparency and impartiality of the electoral process.”
