UN Security Council mulls asking UN to plan for Haiti peacekeepers

7/9/2024 6:29

        The United Nations Security Council began considering on Friday a draft resolution to extend the mandate for an international security mission helping Haiti fight armed gangs and ask the U.N. to plan for it to become a formal peacekeeping mission.
        
        The mandate of the Multinational Security Support (MSS)mission - first approved by the council for 12 months - is set to expire at the start of October, but has seen few results, with few troops on the ground and far less funding than hoped.
        
        The United States and Ecuador circulated a draft text - seen by Reuters - that would renew the mandate for another 12 months and ask "the U.N. to begin planning to transition the MSS mission to a U.N. peacekeeping operation, in order to sustain the gains made by the MSS mission."
        
        The 15-member council is due to vote on Sept. 30 on the mandate renewal.