Hertell's remarks upset many

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The Dominican Foreign Ministry has issued a formal complaint re United States Ambassador Hans Hertell's remarks about Haitians in the Dominican Republic as "unacceptable". The Ministry of Foreign Relations said that Hertell was getting involved in "things that are the sovereign dominion of the Dominican state." In a speech to the American Chamber of Commerce in the Dominican Republic (AmCham) last Wednesday, Hertell touched on the question of Haitian immigration to the Dominican Republic. He said that the issuing of birth certificates to children of illegal Haitian immigrants was "an administrative issue", and this position was firmly rejected by Carlos Morales Troncoso, the DR's Foreign Minister, who said that the Supreme Court of Justice had already ruled on the matter.

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