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STORY: UN / HAITI
TRT: 01:59
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 DECEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
12 DECEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Various shots, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Michel Xavier Biang, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Gabon:
“The security situation in Haiti remains extremely worrisome. The country continues to be threatened by violence marked by kidnappings for ransom, clashes between rival gangs, mob justice and the infiltration of institutions by criminal gangs and networks.”
4. Wide shot, Council
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Michel Xavier Biang, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Gabon:
“The adoption by the Security Council on the second of October this year of resolution 2699, for the deployment of a specialized multinational force, to provide support to the Haitian National Police to combat the extreme gang violence and restore peace and security in this country was welcomed with great hope. But since the adoption of that text, its effective implementation is taking its time. Establishing this force is crucial. It is needed to restore the rule of law to reform the judicial system to provide professional training to the Haitian National Police to make it autonomous, fully operational, well-structured and well equipped. It's important to work on the effective deployment of this force which, together with sanctions, provided by the sanctions regime that I chair, represents a step towards the hoped for return of peace and stability in Haiti, but also towards the eradication of human rights violations, kidnappings, sexual violence, people trafficking, extrajudicial executions, and arms smuggling.”
6. Wide shot, end of briefing
The Chair of the Haiti Sanctions Committee, Ambassador Michel Xavier Biang of Gabon, today (12 Dec) told the Security Council that establishing a specialized multinational force in Haiti is “crucial” in order “to restore the rule of law to reform the judicial system to provide professional training to the Haitian National Police to make it autonomous, fully operational, well-structured and well equipped.”
Biang told the Council that the security situation in Haiti remains “extremely worrisome” as the country “continues to be threatened by violence marked by kidnappings for ransom, clashes between rival gangs, mob justice and the infiltration of institutions by criminal gangs and networks.”
He said the adoption in October of Security Council resolution 2699, for the deployment of a specialized multinational force, “was welcomed with great hope,” but noted that “its effective implementation is taking its time.”
The Gabonese Ambassador said, “the effective deployment of this force which, together with sanctions, provided by the sanctions regime that I chair, represents a step towards the hoped for return of peace and stability in Haiti, but also towards the eradication of human rights violations, kidnappings, sexual violence, people trafficking, extrajudicial executions, and arms smuggling.”
Resolution 2699, adopted on 2 October 2023, authorized Member States to form and deploy a Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission in Haiti for an initial period of 1 year.
