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STORY: UN / HAITI LACROIX
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DATELINE: 03 APRIL 2018, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
03 APRIL 2018, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“MINUJUSTH’s main objective is to build on the achievements of MINUSTAH and is tied to the United Nations overarching goal of consolidating stability and security in the country to facilitate Haiti’s path to longer-term development, for which a stronger rule of law and the enjoyment of human rights remain critical foundations.”
4. Med shot, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“Other key areas of support of the Mission are dedicated to helping curb prolonged pretrial detention and prison overcrowding, notably through an on-site monitoring of activities at the Tribunal de première instance of Port-au-Prince to ensure caseload management procedures are applied, and provision of assistance to the Penal Chain Committee of that court.”
6. Med shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations:
“As a peacekeeping operation, MINUJUSTH can only be effective if it has a sound relationship with the Haitian government and people based on solidarity and mutual trust. A frank, open and respectful dialogue with key national stakeholders is necessary to allow for positive collaboration at all levels in order to bring about effective change.”
8. Med shot, delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Denis Régis, Permanent Representative of Haiti to the United Nations:
“Haiti today is a country at peace. In the wake of the democratic elections held in 2017, institutional stability and the authority of rule of law have been restored. Democratic gains have been consolidated; institutions set up by the constitution are operating in a regular manner; for the Permanent Electoral Council the process is advancing, human rights are being respected and upheld. This is a new reality in a country that certainly was face with tremendous challenges, but a country which enjoys a secure and stable environment which any and all observers in good faith can acknowledge.”
10. Wide shot, Council
Highlighting an overall stable environment in Haiti, the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, told the Security Council today (3 Apr) that the UN Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH’s) main objective “is to build on the achievements of MINUSTAH and is tied to the United Nations overarching goal of consolidating stability and security in the country to facilitate Haiti’s path to longer-term development.”
Lacroix said, “a stronger rule of law and the enjoyment of human rights remain critical foundations” and noted that “other key areas of support of the Mission are dedicated to helping curb prolonged pretrial detention and prison overcrowding, notably through an on-site monitoring of activities at the Tribunal de Première Instance of Port-au-Prince to ensure caseload management procedures are applied, and provision of assistance to the Penal Chain Committee of that court.”
The Under-Secretary-General stressed that “as a peacekeeping operation, MINUJUSTH can only be effective if it has a sound relationship with the Haitian government and people based on solidarity and mutual trust.”
He added that “a frank, open and respectful dialogue with key national stakeholders is necessary to allow for positive collaboration at all levels in order to bring about effective change.”
While acknowledging that this relationship could have been smoother, he said that he was also encouraged by recent indications of a closer, substantive convergence of national and UN priorities.
Haitian Ambassador, Denis Régis, told the Council that “Haiti today is a country at peace.”
He said, “in the wake of the democratic elections held in 2017, institutional stability and the authority of rule of law have been restored. Democratic gains have been consolidated; institutions set up by the constitution are operating in a regular manner; for the Permanent Electoral Council the process is advancing, human rights are being respected and upheld. This is a new reality in a country that certainly was face with tremendous challenges, but a country which enjoys a secure and stable environment which any and all observers in good faith can acknowledge.”
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