The Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of the Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS), Al­bert Ramdin, has wel­comed the agree­ment to strength­en co­op­er­a­tion be­tween the pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tors in the eco­nom­ic, so­cial, and ed­u­ca­tion­al de­vel­op­ment of the re­gion, par­tic­u­lar­ly to sup­port Haiti.

“The sign­ing of this doc­u­ment is a mile­stone for us, and I am pleased that one of the ar­eas of co­op­er­a­tion in­cludes not on­ly fi­nan­cial in­clu­sion, em­ploy­ment, ed­u­ca­tion, and food se­cu­ri­ty, but al­so sup­port for Haiti, “ Ramdin said.

He said he is con­fi­dent that the part­ner­ship  in­volv­ing the Latin Amer­i­can Busi­ness Coun­cil (CEAL) and the OAS “will be the be­gin­ning of a long-stand­ing re­la­tion­ship, not on­ly with re­gard to Haiti but many oth­er places where we will be able to as­sist.”