TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Dec 2, CMC – Honduran President, Xiomara Castro, says she will convene a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to seek an urgent and solidarity-based solution to the crisis in Haiti, where criminal gangs have been seeking to overthrow the government in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country.
“I will convene the CELAC Heads of State so that we can define together a position of absolute and urgent solidarity with Haiti,” said President Castro, who has held the pro tempore presidency of the regional organization since March 1, this tear.
Xiomara Castro said she is seeking solutions to regional problems “without interference or external pressure, with dialogue as a tool and always thinking about regional well-being and the self-determination of peoples.
“It is urgent to raise our voices for the Haitian people, who are today plunged into a spiral of violence,” she added.
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