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Haiti Force Gathers Steam As US Leads UN Talks

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An international force for violence-plagued Haiti came closer to reality Friday after months of efforts, with the United States saying up to a dozen countries have offered support and pledged its own logistical assistance.

“Ten to 12 came with concrete offers to this mission,” State Department number two Victoria Nuland said after a ministerial meeting on Haiti on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

She did not name the countries. Kenya has offered to lead the force with a contribution of 1,000 security personnel.

Jamaica, the Bahamas and Antigua have also made known their willingness to participate.

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has been calling for nearly a year for a force to deploy to the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country, where armed gangs have seized control of vast swathes of land following intersecting public health, political and economic crises.

But until the Kenyan offer, no country was willing to take charge, with Canada considering but determining it was too risky.

In the meantime, more than 2,400 people have died in Haiti’s violence since the start of the year, according to the United Nations.

US President Joe Biden has made clear he will not put US troops in harm’s way. But the United States has offered logistical support including through air transport, intelligence, housing and medical support.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the ministerial meeting that the Biden administration would ask Congress for $100 million to support the mission, which includes both troops and police.

“With our support, this mission can deploy within months — and we really have no time to lose,” Blinken told the meeting that included Henry.

He said that the mission could create “space” for Haiti to resolve its political crisis. The country has not held elections since 2016.

“The support mission will not be a substitute for political progress,” Blinken said.

Blinken also announced that the United States would restrict visas to five current or former Haitian officials over involvement with street gangs.

The peacekeepers will not operate under a UN flag, but the United States is leading efforts for a Security Council resolution to authorize the effort.

A resolution co-sponsored by the United States and Ecuador should be finalized next week, said Nuland, who expected “very strong support” on the Security Council.

In his address to the General Assembly on Tuesday, Biden thanked Kenyan President William Ruto.

“I call on the Security Council to authorize this mission now. The people of Haiti cannot wait much longer,” Biden said.

Ruto in his own speech recalled how Haiti was the first nation in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery when it defeated French colonizers in 1804.

“Haiti deserves better from the world,” Ruto said.

Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados called Friday for urgency at the Security Council.

“This cannot wait much longer. And I hope that those who constitute the members of the Security Council will recognize that they cannot use Haiti as a pawn, because they have suffered for too long and by the hands of too many,” she said.

Complicating diplomacy on Haiti is that it is one of the dwindling number of nations that recognizes Taiwan rather than Beijing, although diplomats have voiced hope that China will support a resolution.

A UN peacekeeping mission was in operation in Haiti from 2004 to 2017 but fell out of favor after a cholera outbreak traced to infected UN personnel claimed thousands of lives.

A man flees tear gas as people demonstrate over the rise in the cost of living in Petit-Goave, Haiti on September 14, 2023
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People displaced by the latest attack of gang violence take refuge in an abandoned movie theater converted into a shelter in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on August 30, 2023
People displaced by the latest attack of gang violence take refuge in an abandoned movie theater converted into a shelter in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on August 30, 2023
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