They reiterated their demand to help Haiti in various international scenarios

Haiti’s ambassador to the Security Council, Antonio Rodrigue, urged that an international military force be sent in to help the national police take control of the country.

Santo Domingo.- At a time when Haiti no longer has any elected officials in its central government and about 60 percent of Port-au-Prince is under the control of armed gangs, the Dominican government in two high-profile international arenas has called for urgent assistance to that nation to pacify it and begin the electoral process.

Noting the continued deterioration of the security situation in Haiti, President Abinader demanded during the 7th Summit of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), in Argentina, that the international community respond to the Haitian government’s appeal for assistance.

Prior to his counterparts in the region, including Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, the President also requested that the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States become a mediating entity to get Haiti to go through the process of calling elections.

In parallel, Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez indicated during a special meeting of the UN Security Council in New York that as long as there is no international support for Haiti, coordinated border management is complicated, turning it into a hotbed of cross-border problems. .

For his part, the Haitian ambassador to the Security Council, Antonio Rodrigue, urged the dispatch of an international military force to assist the national police in controlling the country.

“No more time can be wasted; the situation of insecurity threatens to worsen every day and to exacerbate the situation of the problematic population,” said Antonio Rodrigue, Haiti’s ambassador to the United Nations.

This military deployment was officially requested last October by the Haitian government and supported by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, but the project was not implemented due to the failure to find a country willing to lead it.

According to United Nations data, gang violence in Haiti has reached levels not seen in decades in 2022, with a sharp increase in murders, totaling 2,183 cases, and 1,359 kidnappings, more than double what it was in 2021. .