Above: the OAS in Washington (OAS Photo/Juan Manuel Herrera)

By the Caribbean Journal staff

The Dominican Republic’s new Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States, Pedro Verges, presented his credentials to OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza on Friday.

Verges said his country’s government was “committed to ensuring that all inhabitants, whether nationals or foreigners, are better served not necessarily in material terms, but also in institutional terms.”

“This means that we are able to ensure that democracy will not perish in our country, and we can say that the institutional process will be increased among us,” he said.

Insulza said Verges “has had an important career, both in diplomatic and cultural terms; he is a writer and diplomat by profession, and has had a distinguished participation in the political and cultural center of the country,” Insulza said on the occasion.”

This week, the OAS debated the recent decision by the Dominican Republic’s constitutional court that could strip hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent of their citizenship.