The president of the transitional presidential council announced Thursday that he supports a U.N. peacekeeping mission to fight gang violence still overwhelming authorities.
“I am convinced that this change of status, whilst recognizing the errors of the past cannot be repeated, would guarantee the full success of the mission,” Edgard Leblanc Fils, council president, said at the U.N. General Assembly.
“We would like to see a thought being given to transforming the security support mission into a peacekeeping mission under the mandate of the U.N.” Leblanc said.
A senior U.S. State Department official said Wednesday that the U.S. and some of its partners would like to make changes to the mandate to lay out a path “to become a more traditional peacekeeping operation,” but the Russians and Chinese, who supported the initial mandate, have expressed concerns about doing that.
Leblanc Condemns False Claims About Immigrants
Edgard Leblanc Fils addressed on Thursday his country's concern about the repercussions of these false claims.
"I would like to extend a brotherly greeting to all friends of Haiti that have shown solidarity towards the migrants from our country and in particular, those living in Springfield, Ohio," he said.
Fils said that the history of U.S.-Haiti relations "enables us to say with confidence that the American people reject any incitement to hate against our community."
"The passions that naturally arise during an election campaign should never serve as a pretext for xenophobia or racism in a country such as the United States, a country forged by immigrants from all countries, and which has become a model of democracy for the world," he added.
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