The President Michel Martelly, accompanied by Foreign Minister, Laurent Lamothe, left the country Tuesday, January 10, to attend, in Nicaragua, to the inauguration of President Daniel Ortega, re-elected in November 2011.

The Head of State will return home this Wednesday to attend the commemorative events of January 12, 2010 before traveling to Guamatela Friday, to attend Saturday to the ceremony of swearing in of President Otto Perez Molina.

Yesterday, before leaving the country, the President Michel Martelly told the press "...it is a small delegation that will represent Haiti at the swearing in of the 83rd President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, re-elected on November 6 [...] In the same way that Haiti, Nicaragua participates in the program PetroCaribe [...] so we can learn from the experience of Nicaragua, in how to use the PetroCaribe funds, in addition, Haiti has full attention of the Government of President Ortega. After January 12, 2010, the President Ortega had sent two planes with doctors and equipment to help us [...]

We will take advantage of our trip to meet other leaders of Latin America that will be present [...] such as the President of Suriname Desi Bouterse [Desiré Delano Bouterse] who is a friend of Haiti, the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, the former President of Guatemala, Álvaro Colom and we also take the opportunity to meet with the newly elected President of Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina, hat we had already met during the CELAC [December 2-3, 2011] in Venezuela [...]

The idea is to strengthen cooperation with countries of Latin America, South-South cooperation, so that Haiti can benefit from all supports in terms of exchanges, whether commercial, cultural and other...

More we have friends, more we have more people who want to work with Haiti, better it is for Haiti !"

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-4378-haiti-politic-the-president-martelly-will-participate-in-the-first-celac-summit-in-venezuela.html

S/ HaitiLibre