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STORY: UN / HAITI
TRT: 04:35
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 SEPTEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, flag, United Nations
2. Med shot, conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) William Ruto, CGH, President, Republic of Kenya:
“The biggest challenge and impediment to MSS was logistics, transport, support. If that remains unpredictable, I'm afraid the next mission may suffer the same as MSS, and therefore it is very important that, as we create that transition, we make sure that resources, resourcing the new mission becomes at the heart of the transition.”
4. Med shot, conference room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) William Ruto, CGH, President, Republic of Kenya:
“I must commend the United States. They did make available logistics, vehicles, but unfortunately, most of the vehicles were secondhand vehicles, and therefore they broke down a lot, many times, and in fact, it put our personnel in great danger when they broke down in very dangerous places. But at least they stepped up. We didn't, however, get any useful support from any other quarter.”
6. Med shot, conference room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) William Ruto, CGH, President, Republic of Kenya:
“The situation in Haiti can be solved. It is not Mission Impossible.”
8. Med shot, conference room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) William Ruto, CGH, President, Republic of Kenya:
“The gangs, in my very honest opinion, are cowards. With very minimal intervention, they have literally gone into hiding, occasionally showing up. Some guerrilla warfare of some sort. And therefore, I thought I would use this meeting moving to the attention of the international community that the situation in Haiti can and must be solved.”
10. Med shot, conference room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) William Ruto, CGH, President, Republic of Kenya:
“The achievements of the MSS are too often understated. When the first contingent arrived in Port au Prince few could have imagined that a Boeing 787 one day, would land at the local airport without a risk of being brought down.”
12. Wide shot, conference room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Landau, Deputy Secretary of State, United States:
“The actions of Arnel Belizaire, a former member of the Haitian Chamber of Deputies, and Antonio Chéramy, a former Haitian senator, have both had a destabilizing effect on Haiti’s democratic institutions and processes. Our designation renders Belizaire, Chéramy, and their immediate family members ineligible for entry into the United States.”
14. Med shot, conference room
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Laurent Saint Cyr, President of the Transitional Presidential Council, Haiti:
“The challenges remain immense. Despite the bravery of the contingents deployed, the MSS remains limited in its capacity for action. Underequipped and understaffed, it has not yet been able to secure the entire national territory in a lasting way, and the gangs are exploiting these shortcomings to reorganize and expand their influence. Today, we need more personnel, logistical means, appropriate equipment, sufficient funding, and operational reinforcement to definitively break the firepower of these criminal groups.”
16. Med shot, conference room
17. SOUNDBITE (French) Laurent Saint Cyr, President of the Transitional Presidential Council, Haiti:
“The political will is there. However, the security situation as we know it today remains the main obstacle to the realization of our objective: ensuring a peaceful transfer of power through elections and fully restoring republican order.”
18. Med shot, conference room
19. SOUNDBITE (French) Laurent Saint Cyr, President of the Transitional Presidential Council, Haiti:
“As the MSS mandate approaches its end, I recall the urgent necessity of avoiding any gap between the end of this mission and the establishment of the anti-gang force. Such a gap would be fatal for Haiti and would only worsen an already unbearable security situation.”
21. Med shot, conference room
Kenyan President William Ruto said, “The situation in Haiti can be solved. It is not Mission Impossible.”
Today (22 Sep), at a High-Level Meeting on Haiti, William Ruto, President of the Republic of Kenya said that “The biggest challenge and impediment” to the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti (MSS) “was logistics, transport, support. If that remains unpredictable, I'm afraid the next mission may suffer the same as MSS, and therefore it is very important that, as we create that transition, we make sure that resources, resourcing the new mission becomes at the heart of the transition.”
He also commended the United States and said, “They did make available logistics, vehicles, but unfortunately, most of the vehicles were secondhand vehicles, and therefore they broke down a lot, many times, and in fact, it put our personnel in great danger when they broke down in very dangerous places. But at least they stepped up. We didn't, however, get any useful support from any other quarter.”
He continued, “The gangs, in my very honest opinion, are cowards. With very minimal intervention, they have literally gone into hiding, occasionally showing up. Some guerrilla warfare of some sort. And therefore, I thought I would use this meeting moving to the attention of the international community that the situation in Haiti can and must be solved.”
He also said, “The achievements of the MSS are too often understated. When the first contingent arrived in Port au Prince few could have imagined that a Boeing 787 one day, would land at the local airport without a risk of being brought down.”
Also addressing the meeting, US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau announced that US Department of State is taking additional actions to publicly designate two officials for their involvement in “significant corruption during their time in public office.”
He said, “The actions of Arnel Belizaire, a former member of the Haitian Chamber of Deputies, and Antonio Chéramy, a former Haitian senator, have both had a destabilizing effect on Haiti’s democratic institutions and processes. Our designation renders Belizaire, Chéramy, and their immediate family members ineligible for entry into the United States.”
Laurent Saint Cyr, President of the Transitional Presidential Council of Haiti said, “The challenges remain immense. Despite the bravery of the contingents deployed, the MSS remains limited in its capacity for action. Underequipped and understaffed, it has not yet been able to secure the entire national territory in a lasting way, and the gangs are exploiting these shortcomings to reorganize and expand their influence. Today, we need more personnel, logistical means, appropriate equipment, sufficient funding, and operational reinforcement to definitively break the firepower of these criminal groups.”
He added, “The political will is there. However, the security situation as we know it today remains the main obstacle to the realization of our objective: ensuring a peaceful transfer of power through elections and fully restoring republican order.”
He stressed, “As the MSS mandate approaches its end, I recall the urgent necessity of avoiding any gap between the end of this mission and the establishment of the anti-gang force. Such a gap would be fatal for Haiti and would only worsen an already unbearable security situation.”
