On Wednesday, June 25, 2025, as part of the 55th Regular Session of the OAS General Assembly, which is being held from June 25 to 27, 2025, in Saint John's, Antigua and Barbuda, Jean-Victor Harvel Jean-Baptiste, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, held a fruitful working meeting with the new OAS Secretary General, Albert Ramdin.

The discussions focused on developing a comprehensive action plan focused on the priorities defined by Haiti in order to provide urgent, effective, and lasting solutions to the country's security, humanitarian, economic, and institutional crisis.

To this end, Ramdin invited the Haitian Chancellor to Washington and is preparing to visit Haiti soon.

Haiti was the focus of Secretary General Ramdin's opening remarks at the 55th Regular Session of the OAS General Assembly.

Excerpt from Ramdin's speech:

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Ladies and gentlemen, allow me this moment to address a matter which is, and always has been, certainly for me, as a Caricom national, very near and dear to me. A state of play in our founding member state, the Republic of Haiti. To solve the problems in Haiti, all four OAS pillars, will come into play in the coming months.

Over the past months, we have intensified our consultations with a broad range of stakeholders, most notably the United Nations, partners of the Inter-American system, representatives of the Caricom Eminent Persons Group and members of the Transitional Presidential Council, amongst others, to help identify realistic pathways toward stability and development in Haiti.

Haiti’s crisis demands a holistic and comprehensive response. We are working hard with the team to develop a sequenced, multidimensional roadmap, structured in critical segments and components: security, in its different manifestations, humanitarian assistance, political consensus-building towards a future political and economic agenda, the holding of elections and intensifying economic development efforts. Those are the five pillars in this roadmap which we will develop. Ultimately the objective is to assist, under Haitian leadership, a prospect of long- term stability and effective governance.

Haiti’s path forward, ladies and gentlemen, depends on political renewal, mitigating security and economic stabilization. At the heart of this roadmap lies coordination and finance. Within its remit and the Charter provisions of the OAS, together with global and regional partners, is prepared to play a constructive role in facilitating the required coordination.

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HL/ HaitiLibre