The Mandate of the UN’s Haiti Security Mission is Extended by One Year
After rejecting Haiti’s request to begin negotiations on converting the multinational force fighting gang violence in Haiti into a U.N. peacekeeping operation, the U.N. Security Council decided unanimously on Monday to prolong the force’s term.
China and Russia were successful in getting rid of the resolution’s paragraph acknowledging the call made by the president of Haiti’s transitional presidential council at the U.N. General Assembly “to start a discussion” about switching to a U.N. peacekeeping force, according to the final draft that The Associated Press was able to obtain.
Edgard Leblanc Fils’s call on Thursday marked the first official government expression of support since the US suggested a UN peacekeeping force in early September as a means of securing
Together with over two dozen Jamaican army and police officers, nearly 400 Kenyan officers are currently stationed in Haiti. The number of officers is much less than the 2,500 that several nations, including as Bangladesh, Chad, Benin, and Barbados, had promised to send for the mission. It has a severe lack of funding as well.
The 15-0 vote, according to US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, “sends a strong message to the people of Haiti: The world is standing with you,” she told the Security Council. And we’re not going to stop working to help the nation regain security and stability and move towards peace and stability.
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