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Committee questions State Department strategy after Office of Haitian Affairs was eliminated
Summary
Members asked why the Office of Haitian Affairs was closed and how the department plans to maintain focus on Haiti’s crisis after absorbing functions into the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs; the under secretary said Ambassador Henry Wooster was assigned to lead a whole-of-government review.
House Foreign Affairs Committee members pressed the State Department about the elimination of the Office of Haitian Affairs and asked how the department will maintain focused attention on Haiti’s ongoing crisis.
A committee member said that closing the dedicated Haiti office amid rising violence, arms flows and drug trafficking in the region appeared contrary to the need for intensive engagement. The member…
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