Haiti - Security Council, 9752nd meeting

Security Council Renews Sanctions Regime on Haiti for One Year, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2752 (2024)

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Security Council
• Video Length: 00:19:21
• Production Date: 18 October 2024
• Asset Language: Arabic; English; French; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Original
• Corporate Name: SECURITY COUNCIL; UNITED NATIONS INTEGRATED OFFICE IN HAITI - BINUH
• Subject Topical: HAITI SITUATION; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS; SANCTIONS; VIOLENCE; RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT; VOTING; ARMED GROUPS; SPECIAL MISSIONS; INTERIM GOVERNMENTS; ARMS EMBARGO
• Geographic Subject: CARIBBEAN; HAITI; CARIBBEAN SEA
• MAMS Id: 3284662
• Parent Id: 3280304

Description

The Security Council today authorized the renewal for one year the sanctions regime on Haiti, continuing a travel ban and asset freeze, and expanding the scope of an arms embargo as well as the designation criteria for those measures initially established in October 2022 and later renewed in October 2023 to quell rampant gang violence and restore security in the crisis-torn nation. (For background, see Press Releases SC/15073 and SC/15455.) 

The Council, acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, unanimously adopted resolution 2752 (2024) (to be issued as document S/RES/2752), and in so doing decided that, with respect to those designated for sanctions, actions that threaten the peace, security or stability of Haiti as set forth in Council resolution 2653 (2022) include “engaging in activities that destabilize Haiti through the illicit exploitation or trade of natural resources”. 

By the text, the Council also decided that the scope of the arms embargo, which had been amended in Council resolution 2699 (2023), shall include “arms and related material of all types”, as well as “technical assistance, training, financial or other assistance, related to military activities”, as initially stipulated in Council resolution 2653 (2022). 

As well, it encouraged greater coordination among the Security Council Committee established pursuant to Council resolution 2653 (2022) and its Panel of Experts, United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and other regional frameworks, on the implementation of the sanctions, including arms embargo provisions. 

Further, the Council decided to extend for a period of 13 months the mandate of the Panel of Experts, which, also by the text, was requested by the 15‑member organ to report on the implementation of the resolution in its regular reporting to the Council. 

It also encouraged all Member States to regularly inform the Panel of Experts and the Committee of the concrete actions they have taken to implement effectively the provisions of the present resolution.

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