@MACE
Port-au-Prince, November 27, 2025.- At the Chancellery, this Thursday, November 27, 2025, the Haitian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cults, Jean-Victor Harvel Jean-Baptiste, met with the French Ambassador to Haiti, Antoine Michon, as part of a revival of bilateral dialogue where the security issue is a priority. This meeting follows a first exchange held on the margins of the CELAC-European Union summit in Santa Marta, Colombia, between the head of Haitian diplomacy and his French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot.
Very quickly, the interview went beyond the protocol framework. Port-au-Prince and Paris have shown their will to realign their priorities and to restore a strategic dimension to cooperation that will play a central role in the current context.
The discussions allowed the two delegations to revisit the main axes of the France-Haiti agenda, with a particular emphasis on security cooperation. Technical support, institutional exchanges and capacity-building were discussed, as were existing arrangements and possible ways forward to modernize them. The meeting thus forms part of the direct extension of the Santa Marta interview, confirming the common desire to make security a pillar of the bilateral partnership.
In a second phase, exchanges have expanded to include multilateral diplomacy issues. Haiti and France referred to the possibility of reciprocal support for their respective candidatures in international organizations, in a logic of consolidating their presence and influence on the world stage.
By resuming this dialogue in a frank and focused manner, the two countries seek less to maintain a diplomatic tradition than to redefine a partnership capable of responding to current challenges. If security is the front door, it is indeed the whole cooperation architecture that is being recast, with the ambition to put it in a sustainable, coherent and strategic perspective.
R.J.
