Wednesday, April 20, as part of the celebration of the National Day of the Diaspora, an initiative of the Government of Haiti (Presidential Decree of 16 March 2011 https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-2667-haiti-society-the-diaspora-will-be-celebrated-each-year-on-april-20.html ), the Ambassador of Haiti accredited to Canada, Frantz Liautaud, delivered a message to the Haitian community in Canada.

Message from the Ambassador of Haiti in Canad :

"Ottawa April 20, 2016

Dear friends of the Haitian community,

Faithful to this rendezvous of April 20, I experience once again a pleasure, in my capacity as Ambassador of Haiti to Canada, to extend to you, on behalf of the Provisional Government of the Republic, in that of the Mission and in my own, a friendly hello in this auspicious day dedicated for some time to our diaspora scattered here and there in the world.

No particular theme this year, the circumstances, at that point binding obliging the responsible authority to concentrating in priority, face of contrary currents, on the stability of the country and the thoughtful revival of the electoral process interrupted by the force of things...

Never mind ! Let's impose us, however, on our territory, the enriching theme of the Brotherhood and the "Living together" core values that characterize to the desire of nobility of our community.

In this April 20, 2016, I want ro says you again, dear compatriots and friends, that I am proud of you : of your hard work; your proven expertise in your respective responsibilities; of respect for the other, in the host country and of course, your unimpaired love of homeland...

So many qualities that have given you recently at the initiative of a great friend of Haiti, the Honourable Mauril Bélanger, this resolution passed unanimously in the House of Commons, declaring May 18, the date of Haitian Flag Day, 'Haitian community Day, for its active contribution to the socioeconomic development of Canada' https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-16416-icihaiti-diplomacy-the-government-of-haiti-will-decorate-a-canadian-federal-deputy.html

Such a distinction reflects, of course, on all of us, from here and elsewhere.

On behalf of my wife, Ms. Liautaud, of my collaborators of the embassy, I ask you, my friends, to accept our warmest congratulations, made from the heart.

May God bless Haiti !

Frantz Liautaud

Ambassador"

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