By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-30 08:25:45 | Updated at 2024-10-01 17:21:50
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US changes tack on Haiti peacekeeping push amid China, Russia opposition
Rueters ^ | 29 Sept 2024 | Michelle Nichols
Posted on 09/30/2024 1:05:03 AM PDT by blueplum
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The United States has dropped a push for the U.N. Security Council to ask for a plan to transform a security mission helping fight armed gangs in Haiti into a formal U.N. peacekeeping operation, a move some diplomats said was made to appease Russia and China....
The 15-member Security Council will vote on Monday on a draft resolution to extend the mandate for the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission until Oct. 2, 2025. The U.N. first approved the mission a year ago after the Caribbean country asked for assistance...
Diplomats say Russia and China did not want the council to ask for a plan to transition the U.N.-backed security force to a formal U.N. peacekeeping operation, so the U.S. removed that language from the draft resolution, seen by Reuters. Russia wants to allow more time for the security force to establish itself, Deputy Russian U.N. Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy said on Sunday...
The current Kenyan-led international security mission, while authorized by the U.N. Security Council, is not a United Nations operation. Countries voluntarily provide money and personnel. The mission has made little progress toward helping Haiti restore order with only 400 Kenyan police officers on the ground so far and a shortfall in funding. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said earlier this month that establishing a U.N. peacekeeping force would not be the best solution for Haiti...
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: haiti; nationalsecurity; russia; un
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UN cowtows to China/Russia as 1/10th of Haiti's population seeks refugee staus in the US
1 posted on 09/30/2024 1:05:03 AM PDT by blueplum
To: blueplum
The Russians and Chinese are right, it is waste of time and money.
Allow NO Haitians into the USA and send those that are here back.
Some things just aren't fixable.
2 posted on 09/30/2024 1:11:03 AM PDT by Mogger (AreIn bookstores is a very expensive, beautifully bound in green leather Holy Koran. If one was goin)
To: blueplum
It is more important to ‘solve Haiti’ than anything else. If the gang and corruption problem gets solved, all these Haitians can be made to go home.
3 posted on 09/30/2024 1:17:18 AM PDT by Gaffer
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