The head of the United Nations Antonio Guterres has called for “armed action” in Haiti, warning that residents face a “nightmarish” situation, especially in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
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According to international media, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that he believed such action was necessary to ease the grip gangs have on a port that is critical to allowing fuel supplies into the country.
A weeks-long gang blockade of the Varreux terminal in Port-au-Prince has led to critical shortages of fuel and water and complicated efforts to respond to a dangerous outbreak of cholera.
“It’s an absolutely nightmarish situation for the population of Haiti, especially in Port-au-Prince,” Guterres said.
“I believe that we need not only to strengthen the [Haitian] police strengthening it with training, with equipment, with a number of other measures but that in the present circumstances, we need an armed action to release the port and to allow for a humanitarian corridor to be established,” he said.
Prime Minister Ariel Henry this month asked the international community to help set up a “specialised armed force” to quell the violence, which has worsened in the power vacuum created by the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise.
But many Haitian protesters and civil society leaders have rejected the prospect of international intervention, saying history has demonstrated that foreign forces bring “more problems than solutions”.
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