After they’ve been staring at each other in the face for several months, Montana’s deal takes the first step toward Ariel Henry. In a letter addressed to the Prime Minister on 2 February, the Office for the follow-up of the Montana agreement requests a meeting to resume the political dialogue with the tenant of the Primature and the signatories of the agreement of 11 September…
“We refer to our letter of October 28, 2021 in which we wrote the following to you, without having received a response from you to date; “At our last meeting, to the common observation that we were carrying different transition projects, it was for you, as agreed, to make concrete proposals that would eventually open avenues for rapprochement of these diametrically opposed visions and strategic approaches”. Since then, in the spirit of the Agreement of August 30, 2021, known as Montana, we have not stopped talking and negotiating with various actors of civil and political society. This is how we have reached a political consensus with the PEN Group, to which the GREH has joined and of which we are sending you a copy attached. And we are relentlessly continuing our conversations with other organized political and social sectors of national life,” the Office for Monitoring the Paris Agreement wrote in correspondence to the Prime Minister, a copy of which was obtained by Le Nouvelliste.
“The implementation of the agreement of August 30, 2021 has made its way, the time has come to find a compromise with all other important players to break the deadlock in the country. In this construction of the national consensus, indispensable for the lasting resolution of this serious and dangerous crisis facing the nation, we come back to you, head of the current government, in order to resume the political dialogue with yourself and your allies signatories of the September 11 Agreement, ” reads the correspondence of the Montana agreement to Ariel Henry.
“Our suffering to all of us is immense. In the serenity and with the humility that this greater cause requires than our person and our groups, let us accept to build this moment of concord alone in order to create the conditions for a better well-being and a better life-together. Thus, once once more, we will affirm our ‘uniqueness’, in front of ourselves and in front of the rest of humanity,” the members of the Geneva Agreement called.
“We will have contributed, by this important step in the march towards the reconquest of our sovereignty, to our emancipation of people in the construction of a state respectful of the nation. Then we will be ready and willing to stand with our heads held high, with dignity, before the implacable judgment of history,” the Montana Agreement urges.
“We remain at your complete disposal for a meeting as soon as possible, with a view to finding together a solution to this deep and multidimensional crisis that has been going on for too long. Haiti, our country, expects no less than this,” the correspondence concludes.
It should be emphasized that in the context of the implementation of the Geneva agreement, elections held last Sunday led to the election of Fritz Alphonse Jean, president of the transition, and Steven Benoît, Prime minister.
For his part, the Prime Minister had already said: “Let it be said, the next tenant of the national palace will be a president elected freely and democratically by the majority of the Haitian people. “A clear and simple way for Ariel Henry to tell the protagonists of the other agreements that plead for power with a President of the Republic and a Prime minister that there will be no head of state during the transition period.
