05/22/2025
Reference: AVI-104/25
May 21, 2025
OAS to Host Symposium on Haiti’s Security Crisis
The Organization of American States (OAS), together with the Permanent Mission of Haiti to the OAS, will host the symposium: “Finding Urgent Solutions for the Haiti Security Crisis,” TOMORROW, Thursday, May 22 at 9:00 EDT (13:00 GMT) in the Hall of the Americas at OAS Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The event will be opened by OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro and the President-Counselor of the Republic of Haiti, Smith Augustin, and will feature-among others- the following speakers:
· The Minister of Public Security and Justice of Haiti, Patrick Pélissier;
· The Minister of Defense of Haiti, Jean Michel Moïse;
· The Deputy Assistant Secretary for Caribbean Affairs and Haiti, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. State Department, Barbara Feinstein;
· The Haitian-born U.S. Army combat veteran and scholar of international relations and diplomacy, Rod Joseph, Ph.D.
· The Special Advisor on the Responsibility to Protect of the Organization of American States, Jared Genser; and
· The Director of the Department against Transnational Organized Crime (DTOC) of the OAS, Gaston Schulmeister.
The agenda of the event is available here.
The meeting will be broadcast live - with interpretation in English and French- on the OAS Website and the OAS page
Press Contact: Mónica Reyes ([email protected])
WHAT: OAS to Host Symposium on Haiti’s Security Crisis
WHEN: Thursday, May 22 at 9:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
WHERE: Hall of the Americas , Organization of American States. 17th Street & Constitution Avenue NW Washington, DC 20006.
