Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Chancellor,
Roberto Álvarez, urged this Monday the
United Nations Security Council to approve a new security mission for neighboring Haiti, mired in a serious crisis for years that has left thousands dead.
The Dominican official made this statement during his participation in a meeting at the UN with the US Under Secretary of State, Christopher Landau, and with the President of
Kenya, William Ruto, a country that leads the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) in Haiti, the Dominican Foreign Ministry reported.
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Álvarez made an “energetic call” to the Security Council to approve “urgently” the resolution proposed by the United States and Panama, which seeks to transform the MSS into a hybrid force that transfers the logistics and operations of this to the United Nations and, in addition, grants it a more robust mandate to achieve the objective of establishing security with a view to holding elections in those nations.
The Dominican chancellor took the opportunity to thank Kenya for its leadership in the MSS and paid tribute to the Kenyan soldiers who died – at least three – and those injured during their work.
The MSS, an initiative requested by the Haitian authorities, is led by Kenya, financially backed by the United States, and was approved by the Security Council in 2023.
This mission, activated in 2024, seeks to support Haitian security forces in their fight against armed gangs that control nearly 90% of the capital and other areas of the country, although it has not achieved significant results so far.
In the second quarter of this year alone, about 1,520 people died and 609 were injured in Haiti, mainly in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince and mostly perpetrated by criminal gangs, according to data from the UN Integrated Office in the country (BINUH, by its French acronym).
