{"id":128790,"date":"2021-05-11T14:54:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T18:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=128790"},"modified":"2021-05-11T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T18:55:08","slug":"a-storm-brewing-over-haiti-at-the-oas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/a-storm-brewing-over-haiti-at-the-oas\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: A storm brewing over Haiti at the OAS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Sir Ronald Sanders\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>

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(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Strong disagreement may be brewing at the Organization of American States (OAS) on how to respond to the ongoing, grave political and constitutional crisis in Haiti.<\/p>

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Since January 2020, the Haitian President,\u00a0\u00a0Jovenel Mo\u00efse, has been ruling the country by decree without any legislative oversight.\u00a0\u00a0The mandates of the members of the Haitian Parliament, except for 10 of them, were terminated because elections were not held.<\/p>

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The rising tension in the country, including use of lethal force by the police against protestors, widespread kidnappings and killing, rape of women, and an arbitrary decision by Mo\u00efse to hold a controversial referendum on a new constitution, as well as heightened political contention, caused concerned member states at the OAS, including nine CARICOM countries, to sponsor a Resolution at the organization\u2019s Permanent Council to address the situation urgently.<\/p>\n

Specifically, the Resolution, adopted on March 17, offered \u201cthe good offices of the OAS under the authority of the Permanent Council to facilitate a dialogue that would lead to free and fair elections\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0It requested the Secretary-General, Luis Almagro, \u201cto advise the Government and other major stakeholders in Haiti, of the Permanent Council\u2019s offer to undertake a good offices role and to invite the President of Haiti to consider inviting the Permanent Council to do so\u201d.<\/p>

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Whether or not Almagro wrote to the Haitian President and \u201cother major stakeholders\u201d is unclear.\u00a0\u00a0Certainly, no major political party or human rights group in Haiti has confirmed receipt of any communication from him.\u00a0\u00a0There has also been silence from him to two official requests, asking for details of stakeholders to whom he might have written and when.\u00a0\u00a0There is no need for this \u2013 a straight answer is all that is required.<\/p>\n

This matter will be mired in controversy, because while uncertainty prevails over whether or not the Secretary-General did write to the President and other major stakeholders in Haiti, a letter dated April 28 was sent to him by Claude Joseph in the latter\u2019s capacity as Minister of Foreign Affairs.\u00a0\u00a0The letter is significant.<\/p>

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First, it does not refer to any communication received from Almagro.\u00a0\u00a0Instead, it references the Permanent Council\u2019s Resolution of March 17 as the basis for writing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Second, it states that \u201cthe Government of the Republic of Haiti is willing to receive an OAS mission in support of the ongoing dialogue with all the nation\u2019s stakeholders with a view to concluding a political agreement that will facilitate the organization of the constitutional referendum and elections at all levels during the course of 2021\u201d.<\/p>

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On the second point, the OAS Resolution of 17 March did not offer its good offices \u201cto facilitate the organization of the constitutional referendum\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The proposed referendum is entirely of President Mo\u00efse\u2019s making and is mired in claims of unconstitutionality.\u00a0\u00a0The highly respected U.S. Congresswoman, Maxine Waters, describes it as \u201cMo\u00efse\u2019s most audacious and dangerous power grab\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Legal experts inside and outside Haiti have opined that the existing Constitution specifically prohibits referenda to decide constitutional changes because a former dictator, Jean Claude \u2018Baby Doc\u2019 Duvalier, had used that artifice to proclaim himself President-for-Life.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Therefore, if the OAS accepts that facilitation of the referendum is a condition of its good offices\u2019 role, its purpose and credibility are undermined even before it starts.\u00a0\u00a0No stakeholder would participate in any dialogue where organisation of a constitutional referendum is a condition.<\/p>\n

It is important to recall that, prompted by the rapidly deteriorating democratic and human rights situation in Haiti, the offer of good offices by the Permanent Council resolution was \u201cto facilitate a dialogue that would lead to free and fair elections\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nowhere did the Resolution venture to suggest that the OAS\u2019 role would include facilitating the organisation of a referendum to alter the constitution.<\/p>\n

Particularly significant is that on April 26, two days before Joseph sent his letter to Almagro, 68 members of the U.S. Congress wrote to Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, pointing out that Mo\u00efse \u201clacks the credibility and legitimacy to oversee a constitutional referendum scheduled for June 2021, or to administer elections that are free and fair\u201d.<\/p>\n

This position by such a large number of U.S. Congress persons, led by Gregory W. Meeks, the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House, is a remarkable development.\u00a0\u00a0It shows that important U.S. lawmakers are deeply concerned about what they describe as, \u201clack of preparedness of electoral institutions to hold elections, as well as the unconstitutional composition of the prevailing electoral council\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Contrary to law, Mo\u00efse handpicked the members of the Council.<\/p>\n

Of especial note is that the 68 U.S. Congresspersons urged Secretary Blinken to use the U.S. vote within the OAS \u201cto ensure U.S. taxpayer dollars are not spent in support of this referendum\u201d.<\/p>\n

Last year, the OAS and CARICOM, held all the parties in Guyana to account to deliver a credible result to general elections held on March 2. It took five months of the active attention and diligence of CARICOM, the Commonwealth, the European Union and the OAS to ensure that democracy and the rule of law were upheld in Guyana, and that general and regional elections were not stolen by the incumbent government.<\/p>\n

What is happening in Haiti now is no less egregious than what was resisted in Guyana in 2020 and is now being condemned in other member states of the OAS \u2013 and even in countries outside of it.<\/p>\n

The OAS must act in the interest of\u00a0\u00a0Haiti and the Haitian people to uphold their rights to democratic governance, human rights, and the opportunity for economic development. The governing Charters of the OAS mandate it.<\/p>\n

Responses and previous commentaries:\u00a0www.sirronaldsanders.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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By Sir Ronald Sanders\u00a0 (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own)\u00a0 Strong disagreement may be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nCOMMENTARY: A storm brewing over Haiti at the OAS - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/a-storm-brewing-over-haiti-at-the-oas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COMMENTARY: A storm brewing over Haiti at the OAS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Sir Ronald Sanders\u00a0 (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own)\u00a0 Strong disagreement may be […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/a-storm-brewing-over-haiti-at-the-oas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-11T18:54:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-05-11T18:55:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sir-Ronald-Sanders-696x464-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"696\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"464\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/a-storm-brewing-over-haiti-at-the-oas\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/a-storm-brewing-over-haiti-at-the-oas\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"COMMENTARY: A storm brewing over Haiti at the OAS\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-11T18:54:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-05-11T18:55:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/a-storm-brewing-over-haiti-at-the-oas\/\"},\"wordCount\":1004,\"commentCount\":3,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/a-storm-brewing-over-haiti-at-the-oas\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:696\/h:464\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sir-Ronald-Sanders-696x464-1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/a-storm-brewing-over-haiti-at-the-oas\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/a-storm-brewing-over-haiti-at-the-oas\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/a-storm-brewing-over-haiti-at-the-oas\/\",\"name\":\"COMMENTARY: A storm brewing over Haiti at the OAS - 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