Text and photos: Juan David Latorre.
The Ambassador of the Republic of Haiti, Louis Marie Montfort Saintil, and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for Latin America and the Caribbean, Cristina Gallach, met last Friday to unify criteria for collaboration between Haiti and Spain.
During the meeting, the Secretary of State, Cristina Gallach, expressed the Spanish government’s full support for the electoral processes in Haiti in order to guarantee the country’s political stability.
The meeting was attended by the delegation of the Conference of Rectors, Presidents and Leaders of Universities and Higher Education Institutions of Haiti (CORPUHA), with its president Jean Robert J.B. Charles and its vice-president, Robert R. Joseph, who came from Haiti to sign a framework agreement of collaboration with the Consortium of University Rectors of Spain (CRUE).
The Haitian Ambassador handed the signed agreement to the Secretary of State and expressed his willingness to collaborate culturally with the Spanish State, and especially with the Fundación Carolina, from which he expressly requested a closer relationship for the implementation of future projects, based on the Foundation’s scholarships.
For her part, the Secretary of State emphasised the willingness of the Ministry and the Spanish Government to give all possible support to bilateral relations between the two countries, especially in cultural matters.
Meeting with the CUIB
Later, at the headquarters of the Haitian Embassy, a meeting was held with the Secretary General of the Ibero-American University Council (CUIB), Félix García Lausín, in which the Haitian side expressed its desire to integrate socially and educationally into the Ibero-American world and its intention to greatly increase the teaching of Spanish in Haitian universities.
For his part, the Secretary General of the CUIB expressed his full support for inter-university collaboration between the two countries and indicated that there was agreement on a few projects and on bringing them to fruition, rather than trying to make a large number of agreements that could not be developed later.
