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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Aug 04, 2015
• Views : 730
• Category : General News
• Description : July 31, 2015
  
  
  
• Location : Washington, DC, United States
• Website : http://haitiantimes.com/oas-offers-asistance-in-haiti-dominican-immigration-dispute-12182/

Overview

• WASHINGTON, July 30 (UPI) – The Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday offered to facilitate negotiations between Haiti and the Dominican Republic due to the recent immigration controversy.
  
  OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro presented a report in Washington D.C. over the thousands of Haitians facing deportation in the Dominican Republic, where the agency also submitted observations and recommendations after sending inquiry groups to both countries.
  
  The OAS suggests the resumption of mutual dialogue between the countries and the establishment of legal mechanisms for resolving disputes about immigration, according to CNN Español.
  
  The OAS also urges the establishment of “a mechanism of understanding, in the framework of international standards, that allows for the transfer of people between the two countries.”
  
  More than 25,000 Haitians have already left the Dominican Republic to return to Haiti, many of whom were born in the Dominican Republic to Haitian immigrants. There were an estimated 500,000 Haitians living in the Dominican Republic before the recent immigration scandal.
  
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