The Deputy Administrative Minister of the Dominican Presidency, Andrés Lugo Risk, assured that during his meetings with different deputies in the European Parliament, they committed to making efforts to present a new resolution to put the Haitian crisis in one of the first items on the agenda.

Lugo, who is the coordinator of the delegation appointed by President Luis Abinader to publicize the "National Pact for the Haiti Crisis," held nearly 20 meetings with representatives of European states in Brussels, Belgium.

He stressed that the European Union authorities have expressed their full support for the multinational mission to support the security of Haiti. Lugo Risk presented them with the Dominican national pact for the formulation of public policies which will allow the country to face the harmful effects generated by the Haitian crisis on Dominican territory As well as the ratification of the Dominican position according to which there is no and there will be no solution to Haiti's problems in the DR. "We rather insistently ask you to intervene in the pacification of a Nation mired in violence, chaos and instability at all levels," he insisted to the deputies.

The commissioners of the Dominican delegation met with figures such as María Clara Girbau Ronda, Permanent Representative of Spain to the European Union; Tomás Reyes Ortega, President of the Committee on Relations with Latin America and the European External Action Service, and Belgian Senator Orry Van de Wauwer. They also met with the Chief of Staff, Leticia Zuleta, and the Deputy Head of Foreign Affairs, François Gabriel, the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, João Castel Branco, Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean; Javi López, President of the delegation of the Euro-Latin American Assembly of the European Parliament and Juan López Aguilar, President of the Committee on Freedoms and Justice of the European Parliament.

Other meetings took place with the leaders of the European Parliament: Inma Rodríguez Piñero, Vice-President of CARIFORUM-EU; Tomasz Poreba, from the Euro-Latin American Assembly; Tilly Metz, Delegate for relations with Central American countries; Janez Lenarcic, European Commission Commissioner responsible for crisis management; Cibrán Fernández Silva, Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of the Council of the European Union, Charles Michel; Jeroen Cooreman, Director General of Bilateral Affairs, and Ghislain D'hoop, Director General of Multilateral Affairs of the Kingdom of Belgium; Ibrahim Norbert Richard, Assistant Secretary of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS); Renaud Savignat, Jutta Urpilainen and Félix Fernández Shaw, from the International Associations office; Javier Niño, Deputy Director for America of the European External Action Service and Pelayo Castro Zuzuarregui, Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean.

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