In the importance of achieving a “political solution” in Haiti the Secretary General of the United Nations focused on Thursday 29/2 Antonio Guterres. “The arrival of an international armed force to help police control gang violence is not enough,” he noted.
“We need (…) progress to reach a political solution,” Mr. Guterres pointed out after arriving in the archipelago of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, a small Caribbean country southeast of Haiti.
“Without a political solution, the problem will never be solved,” he underlined as reported by the Athens News Agency citing AFP.
To help police deal with a wave of armed gang violence in Haiti, the Security Council last October gave the go-ahead to the deployment of an international armed force in the country, which Kenya offered to lead.
But her arrival is still awaited, as a court in Nairobi has declared unconstitutional the deployment of 1,000 Kenyan police in the Caribbean country, the poorest in the Western Hemisphere.
“We need a security system that will allow an end to the rule of gangs and the crime that is destroying the country,” Antonio Guterres continued, criticizing the lack of “international support (…) at the humanitarian and economic level” in that country.
Four police officers were killed in a shootout with gang members in the capital Port-au-Prince on Thursday, a police union official said, as one of the most powerful gangs said it would launch coordinated attacks to oust embattled Prime Minister Ariel Henri.
After the assassination in 2021 of President Jovenel Moise, Haiti plunged even deeper into a multidimensional crisis – security, humanitarian, public health, political… – amid the spread of gangs, which progressively brought under their control a large part of the country, especially of the capital. The number of homicides more than doubled in 2023, according to UN data.
In power from 2021, Mr Henry would theoretically hand over power on February 7 under a deal struck in December 2022.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, January 2024 was “the most violent in over two years” in Haiti.
Source: News Beast
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