US issues warning to Haiti’s CPT against changing government

The United States has warned Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council not to make any changes to the country’s current government, signaling that any attempt to remove Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé would be considered “null and void.”

In a statement posted on the U.S. Embassy in Haiti’s Facebook page Wednesday evening, the Americans said efforts to change the government would undermine security and risk benefiting armed groups operating across the country at this late stage of the temporary body’s expiring mandate.

“The US would regard any effort to change the composition of the government by the non-elected Transitional Presidential Council at this late stage in its tenure (set to expire on February 7) to be an effort to undermine that objective,” Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau wrote.

He added that the US would respond if such changes to the council were to occur.