Thank you, Chair.
I want to welcome His Excellency the Ambassador and the guests accompanying him to the committee today. Greetings to you all.
[The member spoke in Créole]
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Before I go any further, Your Excellency, I would like to offer my sincere condolences through you to the family of Mikaben, the talented young artist who suddenly died. We were all saddened by his death.
Your Excellency, since I have only six minutes, I'd like to ask you some questions and get some brief answers. If my questions make you feel uncomfortable in your capacity as a diplomat, please feel free to ask me to move on to the next question.
Here's my first question.
Doesn't the Haitian government's request constitute, for it, an admission of failure to lead the country?