The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Haiti announced this Thursday, November 21, that it had summoned the French ambassador to this Caribbean country and protested against the “statements considered unacceptable” by President Emmanuel Macron, accusing Haitian officials of being “completely stupid.”
The head of Haitian diplomacy, Jean-Victor Harvel Jean-Baptiste, expressed this Thursday afternoon to French diplomat Antoine Michon “the indignation of the transitional Power at what it considers a hostile and inappropriate gesture that deserves to be rectified.” ”according to the ministry’s press release.
This official text specifies that the French ambassador “acknowledged that these were unfortunate comments” made on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rio.
“A letter of protest addressed to the Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, was delivered to ambassador” Michon, according to the statement.
“They are completely stupid”
The head of Haitian diplomacy reacted this Thursday to a video filmed the day before, outside the presence of the press, and which circulated on social networks, of Emmanuel Macron when he left the G20 in Rio for Chile.
The French head of state was responding, according to his entourage, to a Haitian who questioned him “insistently” accusing him and Paris “of being responsible for the situation in Haiti.”
“Frankly, it was the Haitians who killed Haiti, leaving the drug trade behind,” responded Emmanuel Macron. “And there, what they did, the Prime Minister was great, I defended him, they fired him!” he added in reference to the dismissal on November 10 of the head of government Garry Conille, appointed five months earlier, by the Haitian government. Presidential Transition Council.
Since the resignation in April of the controversial Prime Minister Ariel Henry, the CPT has found itself at the head of the executive of this country mired in chaos and deprived of a president since 2021. “It’s terrible. It’s terrible. And I can’t replace him. “They are completely stupid, they should never have published it, the Prime Minister was great,” continues the French president, before the video is interrupted.
Source: BFM TV
