The Government calls the Human Rights Watch report a lie
Spokesman says the Dominican Republic cannot tolerate that it goes unanswered
Diario Libre
SANTO DOMINGO. The Dominican government expressed yesterday its rejection of the report presented by the Human Rights Watch (HRW), in which the group accused the country of carrying out massive deportations against patients and their descendents born in the Dominican Republic.
"We cannot permit that any person who comes to our country, tells lies, pretends to do harm to the Dominican Republic and does not get an answer," said the government spokesman and director general of Communications for the Presidency, Roberto Rodriguez Marchena, on a radio program.
"You have liberty to say anything, but you should also know that if you disrespect our country, you should know that you're going to have to face us and that we are going to answer," he added during his telephone intervention.
Rodriguez Marchena praised the attitude of several reporters during the press conference that the international agency carried out yesterday morning, saying that they acted responsibly in their profession by demanding proof of the report of the Human Rights Watch.
He reiterated what was said by the President of the Republic, Danilo Medina in the last summit meeting of the System of Central American Integration (SICA), that in the country there is not a single case of statelessness.
"Mendacious and prejudiced"
And last night, the Judicial Consultant of the Executive Power, Cesar Pina Toribio, called the report of the Human Rights Watch organization "dreadful, mendacious and prejudiced."
He said that with this report they are trying to overturn the decision of the Dominican government to normalize the migration flows according to the attributions, which the Constitution and the laws confer, and above all the concept of national sovereignty, which is in play in this type of decision.
Nonetheless, Pina Toribio said that they cannot call the report of the foreign agency meddling, because it is an agency that is participating in many places with this type of situation.
"What I can tell you is that this is a lie, it is a creation, with which they are pretending to pressure the Dominican Republic so that it takes charge of the problems of Haiti," he stated.
He pointed out that this country is sensitive to the problems of the neighboring nation. "But we, and I have already told this to President Danilo Medina, we cannot take on this burden," he underlined.
The official said that if we have had manifestations of solidarity with them in their difficult moments, "this should have been a sufficient element in order to take into account that it is not possible that what they are talking about, that actions of this type would be taken against the Haitian citizens that are in the country irregularly."
Pina Toribio spoke at the Presidential Palace before attending the conference "How to combat poverty: recent lessons of the world experience," which was given in the Caryatids Hall in the Presidential Palace by the Argentine economist, Bernardo Kliksberg.
The activity was headed by President Danilo Medina and the Vice President Margarita Cedeño de Fernandez.
"We cannot permit that any person who comes to our country, tells lies, pretends to do harm to the Dominican Republic and does not get an answer," said the government spokesman and director general of Communications for the Presidency, Roberto Rodriguez Marchena, on a radio program.
"You have liberty to say anything, but you should also know that if you disrespect our country, you should know that you're going to have to face us and that we are going to answer," he added during his telephone intervention.
Rodriguez Marchena praised the attitude of several reporters during the press conference that the international agency carried out yesterday morning, saying that they acted responsibly in their profession by demanding proof of the report of the Human Rights Watch.
He reiterated what was said by the President of the Republic, Danilo Medina in the last summit meeting of the System of Central American Integration (SICA), that in the country there is not a single case of statelessness.
"Mendacious and prejudiced"
And last night, the Judicial Consultant of the Executive Power, Cesar Pina Toribio, called the report of the Human Rights Watch organization "dreadful, mendacious and prejudiced."
He said that with this report they are trying to overturn the decision of the Dominican government to normalize the migration flows according to the attributions, which the Constitution and the laws confer, and above all the concept of national sovereignty, which is in play in this type of decision.
Nonetheless, Pina Toribio said that they cannot call the report of the foreign agency meddling, because it is an agency that is participating in many places with this type of situation.
"What I can tell you is that this is a lie, it is a creation, with which they are pretending to pressure the Dominican Republic so that it takes charge of the problems of Haiti," he stated.
He pointed out that this country is sensitive to the problems of the neighboring nation. "But we, and I have already told this to President Danilo Medina, we cannot take on this burden," he underlined.
The official said that if we have had manifestations of solidarity with them in their difficult moments, "this should have been a sufficient element in order to take into account that it is not possible that what they are talking about, that actions of this type would be taken against the Haitian citizens that are in the country irregularly."
Pina Toribio spoke at the Presidential Palace before attending the conference "How to combat poverty: recent lessons of the world experience," which was given in the Caryatids Hall in the Presidential Palace by the Argentine economist, Bernardo Kliksberg.
The activity was headed by President Danilo Medina and the Vice President Margarita Cedeño de Fernandez.
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