Santo Domingo closed the airspace between the two countries on September 11 of last year, following the conflict related to the construction of an irrigation canal in Haiti with water intake from the Masacre River.

Although the Dominican Republic reported this prohibition did not apply to diplomatic and humanitarian flights, Dupuy responded that “the Haitian authorities do not want to benefit from a privilege to which the Haitian people does not have access.”

She reiterated that the authorities demand the total reopening of the airspace without limiting themselves to exceptions and without negotiations.

The digital newspaper Haiti Libre commented that the provisional prime minister, Garry Cornille, and the president of the Presidential Transition Council, Edgar Leblanc, expressed to Abinader -who will take office tomorrow- the impossibility of leaving Haiti.

This is due to the multiple urgent obligations related to the national situation. ef/ro/joe