September 30, 2024 10:50 PM

UN authorizes Haiti security force for another year

The U.N. Security Council unanimously agreed on Monday (September 30) to authorize for another year an international security force helping fight armed gangs in Haiti, but a U.S. push for a plan to transform it into a U.N. peacekeeping mission was dropped from the resolution because of opposition by Russia and China. The United States is now focused on supporting a call in the General Assembly last week by the head of Haiti's transition council, Edgard Leblanc, for a U.N. peacekeeping mission, ...