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The Dominican Republic is ready to restart a decommissioned canal off a river shared with neighboring Haiti, it said on Thursday, weeks after shutting down the border to stop another canal being built on the Haitian side that it asserts violated a treaty. Santo Domingo shut its border in mid-September, cutting off movement of people and commerce through land, air and sea, citing the construction by private parties of a canal off the Massacre River on the Haitian side of the border in the area of Dajabon. On Thursday, the Dominican government said its INDRHI water authority had completed tests of three motor pumps installed at the intake site and the La Vigia canal, decommissioned in 2007, was ready to resume operations in Dajabon.
The Dominican Republic is ready to restart a decommissioned canal off a river shared with neighboring Haiti, it said on Thursday, weeks after shutting down the border to stop another canal being built on the Haitian side that it asserts violated a treaty. Santo Domingo shut its border in mid-September, cutting off movement of people and commerce through land, air and sea, citing the construction by private parties of a canal off the Massacre River on the Haitian side of the border in the area of
Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader is willing to start negotiating with Haitian officials over the contentious canal at the shared border, if work on the Haitian canal stops first, according to Dominican press.