Roadmap for the Ministry of Defence (Hervé Denis)
Summary: A roadmap sent on 29 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Hervé Denis at the Ministry of Defence. It refers back to the general policy statement he put to the Senate on 14 March 2017 and to the Chamber of Deputies on 20 March 2017, then sets out what the ministry is to undertake over the five-year term.
Key Findings
- Assigns the minister the standing-up of a national defense force, instructing him to equip the country with a public force of military type to strengthen the strategic functions of national defense, under the Constitution's provisions.
- Sets the legislative sequence that this requires: a law reorganizing the Forces Armées d'Haïti and defining how they operate, a military programming law, and a law creating a Central Military Intelligence Directorate, each to be drafted and passed by Parliament.
- Assigns the collection of strategically important information for the National Security Council.
- States that a budget will be progressively allocated to the Ministry of Defense, and that a military engineering corps and a university-level military hospital will be created.
- Frames the force's missions broadly, from knowledge of risks and threats, crisis anticipation through surveillance structures and maintaining a deterrence function, to securing air, land and sea, protecting installations of vital importance, and supporting internal security and civil protection.
- Includes contribution to international security through stabilization and peacekeeping operations, and civic, environmental protection and development activities, alongside relief for the population during disasters.
Full Description
A roadmap sent on 29 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Hervé Denis at the Ministry of Defence. It refers back to the general policy statement he put to the Senate on 14 March 2017 and to the Chamber of Deputies on 20 March 2017, then sets out what the ministry is to undertake over the five-year term.
How to cite
Office of the Prime Minister of Haiti, 2017, Roadmap for the Ministry of Defence (Hervé Denis), http://www.sgcm.gouv.ht/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2-Feuille-de-route-du-Ministre-de-la-D_fense.pdf