The first troops of Jamaica and Belize for the Mission Multinational Support to the Security They arrived in Port-au-Prince on Thursday and will join the 400 agents from Kenya, the country leading the operation, who are already in Haiti.
On behalf of Jamaicatoday arrived at the international airport Toussaint Louverture from the Haitian capital a contingent made up of about twenty military and four police officerssix months after that country announced its support for the multinational mission.
These troops are part of the total of 200 that the Government of Jamaica He promised to send Haiti and will provide command, planning and logistics support for the deployment of the force.
They also arrived in Port-au-Prince today, on a Flight organized by USAtwo soldiers of Belize as part of the multinational missionan operation that has the approval of the United Nations and is expected to be made up of at least 2,500 military and police officers.
Its deployment in Haiti It will happen gradually and, thus, by the end of September, it is expected that countries such as BahamasBarbados, Bangladesh, Chad, Benin and Belize send troops to the country.
Almost three months after the arrivals began, police officers Kenyansthe situation of security has not recorded any significant improvements in Haiti.
Just a week ago, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the Caribbean country, where he promised to work for the next General Assembly United Nations to increase international contributions to the mission and ensure the renewal of the Council’s mandate Security to deployment, which is due to happen in October.
“We need more funds and more staff to sustain the mission,” Blinken said of an operation he USA has contributed more than $300 million.
In October 2023, the Council of Security of the UN gave its approval to the sending of a support mission to the National Police of Haitiin response to the request made a year earlier by the authorities of the Caribbean country to eradicate the violence of the bands armed.
Last year the violence caused, between deaths and woundedeight thousand victims in Haitiwhere criminal groups have come to control 80% of the capital, Port-au-Prince, as well as other areas of the country, according to figures from the UN.
In the first half of 2024, the victims of the violence already amounted to almost 3,900, according to a report by the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH).
