MADRID, 5 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The international community has called this Tuesday for a truce in Haiti that allows the distribution of the necessary fuels and goods, in the face of the humanitarian crisis that the country is suffering after the blockade by armed groups of the main oil terminal.
The Canadian ambassador to Haiti, Sébastien Carrière, has reported that the representatives in the Central American country of eleven countries and several international organizations have jointly called for a truce in the country.
“The ambassadors and representatives in Haiti of Germany, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Spain, the United States, France, Japan, Mexico, Switzerland, Taiwan, the European Union, the United Nations and the Organization of American States are very concerned about the blockade of the Varreux terminal, as well as its humanitarian impact, particularly in the context of the resurgence of cholera,” Carrière announced.
“We ask for an immediate humanitarian truce that allows the exit of fuel for urgent needs,” added the diplomat in a message on the social network Twitter.
The OAS and the French ambassador to the country, Fabrice Mauriès, have expressed themselves in the same way through the same social network.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemned this summer the worsening of the situation of structural insecurity in Haiti, in particular the conflicts and acts of armed violence that affect the popular neighborhoods of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Thus, he stressed that “the actions of the armed gangs have paralyzed the popular neighborhood, which has more than 300,000 inhabitants, and have prevented access to public services and essential and emergency activities in the area, in addition to affecting to the operation of the port of Varreux, which is the access point for goods and humanitarian aid in the country”.
In recent days, Haiti is experiencing a new outbreak of cholera, after confirming two cases last weekend in the metropolitan area of ??Port-au-Prince. The authorities began to track potential patients, after notifying several suspicious cases, among which there are at least seven deaths.
Both the Ministry of Health and the UN have urged the population to contact a doctor if they detect compatible symptoms of a disease that manifests itself especially through watery diarrhea and that derives mainly from unhealthy contexts, from the consumption of water or food. contaminated.
The UN office in Haiti is “actively” monitoring the evolution of the situation and has urged all citizens to remain “vigilant” and adopt protocols that prevent the spread of the disease, for example by washing hands, boiling water, protecting food from contact with animals or using latrines.
