It is one of the major crises occupying the UN General Assembly in New York this week: insecurity in Haiti and the future of the multinational security support force led by Kenya and deployed for nearly three months in Port-au-Prince. The country will be at the heart of several meetings organized in the coming days. This Monday, it is Canada that is seeking to mobilize the international community.
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With our special correspondent in New York, Julien Chavanne
We will talk about the situation in his country, but without him. The President of the Transitional Council, Edgar Leblanc Sonwas unable to reach New York as planned.
He was due to board the Kenyan president’s plane on Saturday, but that was without taking into account a major diplomatic blunder in Haiti, revealed by the newspaper. The New List, because there was already a delegation there. The one led by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
As a result, the UN and the American authorities – confused – claim to no longer be able to ensure the security of the head of the transition.
Emergency money
Edgar Leblanc Fils will therefore follow the discussions on his country from afar. Next Monday, the mandate of the current Kenyan force must be renewed for one year. The United States is pushing to then transform it into a UN force. A pressure move to push the international community to put its hand in its pocket.
Because Antonio Guterres does not want a UN mission in Haiti: the blue helmets are not trained for anti-gang combat, but to maintain peace. What is urgently needed, the UN Secretary General reminds us, is money.
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