Dominican Government Vows To Solve Citizenship Crisis

Dominican Government Vows To Solve Citizenship Crisis
Haitian Senate President, Simon Dieuseul Desras (L), meets with his Dominican counterpart, Reinaldo Pared Perez (R), at the Dominican Congress headquarters in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on October 4, 2013. Both senators agreed to open a dialogue to deal with the situation generated by a sentence of the Constitutional Court that denies the Dominican nationality to children of illegal foreigners. AFP PHOTO/Erika SANTELICES (Photo credit should read ERIKA SANTELICES/AFP/Getty Images)
Haitian Senate President, Simon Dieuseul Desras (L), meets with his Dominican counterpart, Reinaldo Pared Perez (R), at the Dominican Congress headquarters in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on October 4, 2013. Both senators agreed to open a dialogue to deal with the situation generated by a sentence of the Constitutional Court that denies the Dominican nationality to children of illegal foreigners. AFP PHOTO/Erika SANTELICES (Photo credit should read ERIKA SANTELICES/AFP/Getty Images)

The government of the Dominican Republic has developed a plan to resolve the legal status of people who face the prospect of being stripped of their citizenship because of a recent court ruling, a spokesman for the president said Friday.

President Danilo Medina and senior government officials approved the plan at a private meeting and the details will be released when the decree is signed and goes into effect in the coming days, spokesman Roberto Rodríguez said.

Rodríguez announced the decision at a news conference after the meeting and declined to answer questions. Earlier, Interior Minister José Ramón Fadul said the plan would reflect the consensus of a broad set of interests in the country.

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