On October 26, 2026, the Haitian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship issued an official formal summons directed at Faruk Miguel, the Dominican Republic’s ambassador stationed in Port-au-Prince, scheduling a high-stakes bilateral meeting for 12 p.m. on October 29 at the ministry’s central headquarters. The stated purpose of the closed-door consultation is to address issues of critical mutual concern for both Caribbean nations, centering on circulating unsubstantiated reports that allege unauthorized deployments of Dominican military personnel across the shared border into Haitian sovereign territory. Notably, the official summons document released by Haitian diplomatic authorities does not include corroborating evidence to confirm the veracity of the reported incursions, nor does it outline specific contextual details such as exact timestamps of the alleged incidents, precise geographic locations where the military personnel were purportedly spotted, or the specific branches and units of the Dominican armed forces that are said to have entered Haitian land. This diplomatic escalation unfolds against a backdrop of recently ramped-up border security operations implemented by the Dominican Republic, a policy shift directly triggered by the rapid deterioration of public safety and stability across Haiti in recent months. Dominican authorities have poured substantial new resources into securing the nations’ shared frontier, particularly along the southern border corridor: the expanded deployment includes two additional full military battalions, a fleet of armored personnel carriers, heavy engineering and logistics equipment, artillery units, and a suite of advanced surveillance tools including long-range monitoring drones. Haitian foreign ministry officials have not issued further public comment ahead of the scheduled ambassadorial meeting, leaving regional diplomatic observers to anticipate a tense exchange focused on clarifying territorial sovereignty concerns and de-escalating cross-border tensions between the two neighboring states that share the island of Hispaniola.