In his intervention Jean Victor Génus declared "I want to take this opportunity to reassure our partners in the international community [...] I will work to consolidate the bonds of friendship that exist between Haiti and our traditional partners from the North and the South. I will seek to explore all opportunities for cooperation in the economic, commercial, scientific, technical and cultural fields for the benefit of our country."
For his part, Claude Joseph in his intervention declared "During my 21 months at the head of Haitian diplomacy, I have maintained excellent relations with all the friends and partners of Haiti. When it was necessary to reframe certain excesses of foreign leaders, I did it without common measure and especially without acrimony […] No personal interest, real or imaginary, would be sufficiently important to prevent me from defending Haiti and its history, or lead me to sully the memory of the founding fathers of the Nation. It was Dessalines le Grand who said "We dared to be free. We must dare to be it by ourselves and for ourselves'”.
Find out more about Jean Victor Géneus :
Jean Victor Géneus, began his career in administration and public service as Consul General of Haiti in Boston (1991-1998). He was a member of the Private Cabinet of former President René Preval, Minister for Haitians Living Abroad twice (1991 and 2006) and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Haiti to Argentina, Cuba and the Bahamas. He is the author of two books "Autant en emporte la révolution- Notes pour la contribution d’Haïti à la lutte des peuples pour leur libération" (2003) and "La route jamaïcaine : une chronique de Relations Historiques entre Haïti et la Jamaïque" (2006).
