France flies 240 people out of Haiti – including Swiss nationals
Published: Wednesday, Mar 27th 2024, 20:50
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In view of the desolate security situation in Haiti, France has flown 170 of its citizens and 70 other Europeans - including staff from the Swiss SDC office - and other nationals out of the Caribbean state.
أعلنت وزارة الشؤون الخارجية في باريس يوم الأربعاء أنه تم السماح للأشخاص الأكثر عرضة للخطر بمغادرة البلاد بالتعاون مع وزارة الدفاع.
The evacuees were flown by French army helicopters to a French ship that would take them to Fort-de-France, the capital of the French Caribbean island of Martinique. Commercial flights to Haiti had been suspended due to the situation there.
Total SDC staff outside the country
According to the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) in Bern, three members of the foreign staff of the Humanitarian Office of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) were able to leave Haiti on Sunday with French support. These people will be temporarily relocated to Santo Domingo in the neighboring Dominican Republic.
هذا يعني أن جميع الموظفين السويسريين في مكتب مجلس التنمية المستدامة تمكنوا من مغادرة البلاد، كما صرح متحدث باسم وزارة الخارجية السويسرية لوكالة الأنباء Keystone-SDA.
Around 70 Swiss in Haiti
The FDFA is aware of around seventy Swiss nationals in Haiti. Some of them have expressed the wish to leave the country. The FDFA and the Swiss embassy in Santo Domingo are "supporting them as far as possible", said the spokesperson.
The already extremely tense security and humanitarian situation in Haiti had deteriorated further since the end of February. Gang violence prevented interim Prime Minister Ariel Henry from returning from a trip abroad - he announced his resignation.
ولم يتم بعد تنفيذ خطط تشكيل حكومة مؤقتة جديدة والتحضير لأول انتخابات منذ عام 2016 وبعثة متعددة الجنسيات لدعم الشرطة الهايتية. وحتى قبل التصعيد الأخير، كانت الجماعات المسلحة المختلفة تسيطر على ما مجموعه حوالي 80% من العاصمة بورت أو برنس، وفقًا لأرقام الأمم المتحدة.
France's embassy in the French-speaking former colony of Haiti remains open, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday. Around two weeks ago, the German ambassador and all foreign employees of the EU representation left Haiti. The US military flew out non-essential US embassy personnel.
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