{"id":217068,"date":"2010-01-19T15:46:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T20:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthonyclarkarend.com\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2010-01-19T15:46:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T20:46:58","slug":"un-security-council-authorizes-3500-more-un-peacekeepers-for-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217068","title":{"rendered":"UN Security Council authorizes 3500 more UN peacekeepers for Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"UN\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amnestyusa.org\/uploads\/image\/un.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=33516&amp;Cr=haiti&amp;Cr1=\">UN News Centre<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>19 January 2010 \u2013 <\/span><span>The  Security Council today backed Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon\u2019s call to increase  the overall force levels of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti to  support the immediate recovery, reconstruction and stability efforts following  last week\u2019s devastating earthquake.Following his visit on Sunday to the capital, Port-au-Prince, Mr. Ban asked  the Council for an additional 1,500 police officers and 2,000 troops to  reinforce the mission, known as <a href=\"http:\/\/minustah.org\/\">MINUSTAH<\/a>, to  augment its 9,000 uniformed personnel already on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The Council, in unanimously adopting resolution 1908, decided that MINUSTAH  will consist of a military component of up to 8,940 troops of all ranks and of a  police component of up to 3,711 police, and that it will keep the new force  levels under review as necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-member body took that action, \u201crecognizing the dire circumstances and  urgent need for a response\u201d to the 7.0-magnitude quake which struck Haiti on 12  January, leaving one third of the country\u2019s population of 9 million in need of  immediate humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/infocus\/sgspeeches\/statments_full.asp?statID=708\">Speaking  to reporters<\/a> after the meeting, Mr. Ban voiced his gratitude to the Council  for its swift action. \u201cBy approving my proposal\u2026 the Council sends a clear  signal \u2013 the world is with Haiti.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the need to try to get the extra forces on the ground as quickly  as possible. Yesterday UN peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy said a pledge for 800  troops has already been received from the Dominican Republic and more pledges  are expected soon.<\/p>\n<p>The additional forces are needed, Mr. Le Roy said, to escort humanitarian  convoys, to secure humanitarian corridors that are being established, and to  constitute a reserve force \u201cin case the situation unravels and security  deteriorates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake has caused the single greatest loss of life in the UN\u2019s  history. The Christopher Hotel, which housed the world body\u2019s headquarters in  Haiti, collapsed, while other buildings hosting the UN suffered extensive  damage.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of UN personnel are still unaccounted for, and among those confirmed  dead are Mr. Ban\u2019s Special Representative to Haiti and head of MINUSTAH, H\u00e9di  Annabi, as well as his Deputy, Luiz Carlos da Costa, and Acting Police  Commissioner Doug Coates of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Mr. Ban dispatched Edmond Mulet, the former Special Representative  to Haiti and current Assistant-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, to  the country to assume full command of MINUSTAH in the wake of the disaster.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Good. Let&#8217;s hope that the organization can play a useful coordinating role too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AnthonyClarkArend\/~4\/M00OQPWcFds\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the UN News Centre: 19 January 2010 \u2013 The Security Council today backed Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon\u2019s call to increase the overall force levels of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti to support the immediate recovery, reconstruction and stability efforts following last week\u2019s devastating earthquake.Following his visit on Sunday to the capital, Port-au-Prince, Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}