Welcome to Ambassador Léon Charles of Haiti

Permanent Council · Regular meeting
Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.

Ambassador Josué Fiallo, Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic
As Chair of the Permanent Council

Full minutes of the meeting: CP/ACTA 2350/21

Translated from the Spanish original, which is the authoritative text.

I refer to the welcome to the Permanent Council of the Permanent Representative of Haiti to the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Léon Charles, who presented his credentials to the Secretary General on November 3.

Ambassador Léon Charles is a military and police officer by training and a diplomat by profession; he studied Electronic Engineering at the Institute of Electronic Technology of Haiti and holds diplomas in Business Administration from Quisqueya University in Port-au-Prince and in Spanish Language from the University of Salamanca.

He graduated as a Naval Officer from the "Almirante Padilla" Naval Cadet School in Cartagena, Colombia, and from the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. He also pursued studies in Hemispheric Defense and Security at the Inter-American Defense College and the University of El Salvador in Argentina.

Ambassador Léon Charles comes to us after a long professional career in the service of his country, both at home and in the region. He has headed the Haitian National Police; he has been Chargé d'Affaires and in charge of security matters at the Embassy of Haiti in Washington; he has been Technical Secretary of the Joint Bilateral Commission and Commissioner in charge of the Haitian Coast Guard, among other responsibilities.

Ambassador Léon Charles knows the Organization very well, since, before this appointment, from July 2017 to November 2020 he was his country's Permanent Representative to the OAS.

Ambassador Léon Charles, welcome back to the Organization of American States. You have the floor.