Haiti's Forbin urges international community to move 'from solidarity to action'

Haiti's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Religious Worship, Raina Forbin, called on the international community to move "from solidarity to action, from commitments to their implementation and from promises to results," according to Le Nouvelliste. Forbin made the appeal during a meeting of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Thursday, September 3, 2026. She pressed for the rapid mobilization of the human, financial, logistical and operational resources needed for the full deployment of the 5,500 members of the Gang Repression Force (Force de répression des gangs, FRG). Forbin also encouraged the OAS, its member states and partners of the inter-American system to provide Haiti's electoral process with technical, financial, logistical and security support "commensurate with the democratic stakes," Le Nouvelliste reported. The remarks come amid broader OAS engagement on Haiti, including calls by Alberto Föhrig, the representative of the OAS Secretary General for Haiti, for Haitian-led solutions. The outlet did not report specific pledges made by member states in response to the minister's appeal.