Colombia–Haiti relations
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Colombia–Haiti relations are the diplomatic relations between the Republic of Colombia and the Republic of Haiti. Both governments have maintained a friendly relationship since the time of Colombia's independence in 1820.
History
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The two governments established diplomatic relations in 1820, and Haiti provided support in the Colombian War of Independence,[1] serving as inspiration and refuge to Simón Bolívar and even providing him with 7 ships, 4,000 rifles with bayonets, 15,000 pounds of gunpowder, 15,000 pounds of lead, rifle flints, provisions, cash, and 3,500 men.[4] Simon Bolivar said about Haiti:
Having lost Venezuela and New Granada, the island of Haiti welcomed me with hospitality: the magnanimous President Pétion lent me his protection and under his auspices I formed an expedition of three hundred men comparable in courage, patriotism and virtue to the companions of Leonidas. Thanks to the people of Haiti my compatriots will be free again.[5]
Border
[edit]The border between Colombia and Haiti is an international maritime limit that runs along the Caribbean Sea, is defined by the Liévano-Brutus Treaty, signed on 17 February 1978 in Port-au-Prince by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Indalecio Liévano Aguirre, and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cults of Haiti, Edner Brutus, and approved by the Congress of the Republic of Colombia by Law No. 12.[6]
The border between the two countries is defined by the principle of the median line, whose points are equidistant from the nearest baselines, from which the width of the territorial sea of each state is measured. It consists of a single straight line that runs between the coordinate points 14°44′10″N 74°30′50″W / 14.73611°N 74.51389°W and 15°02′00″N 73°27′30″W / 15.03333°N 73.45833°W.[7]
Economic relations
[edit]Colombia exported products worth 9,133 thousand dollars, the main exported products being sugar, agro-industrial products and plastics, while Colombia exported products worth 45 thousand dollars, the main products being cosmetics.[8]
Diplomatic representation
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Colombia uses its embassy in Santo Domingo as a concurrent embassy in Haiti.[1]
Haiti uses its embassy in Quito as a concurrent embassy in Colombia.
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Haiti". Cancillería de Colombia.
- ^ "EMBAJADA DE COLOMBIA EN SANTO DOMINGO, REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA". EmbassyPages (in Spanish).
- ^ "EMBAJADA DE HAITÍ EN QUITO, ECUADOR". EmbassyPages (in Spanish).
- ^ "Historia colombiana y constitucional". Corporación Florentino González (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 August 2020.
- ^ "¿Qué habría hecho Bolívar sin Haití?". El Tiempo (Colombia) (in Spanish). 2010-01-27. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
- ^ Sociedad Geográfica de Colombia. "Acuerdo sobre Delimitación de Fronteras Marítimas entre la República de Colombia y la República de Haití" (PDF). Retrieved 27 July 2011.
- ^ "Frontera con Haití" (in Spanish). Sociedad Geográfica de Colombia. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
- ^ "Perfil de Haití". Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo (Colombia) (in Spanish).
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