Haiti

(Quelle: Washington Post) Armed police in combat boots karate-chopped and slashed the air with black clubs, part of a Chinese display of peacekeeping force as Beijing dispatches a 125-strong contingent to Haiti - its first contribution to a U.N. mission in the Western Hemisphere.

(Quelle: Washington Post) Scores of armed rebels approached Gonaives and some sneaked into the city despite opposition from U.N. peacekeepers, ratcheting up more tension in the city of a quarter million devastated by floods more than a week ago.

(Quelle: New York Times) The United Nations rushed hundreds more peacekeepers to storm-ravaged Gonaïves on Monday to stem looting, while hundreds of weary Haitians lined up for food before daybreak after spending a miserable night in the rain from Tropical Storm Jeanne.

(Quelle: Reliefweb) Argentina will send reinforcements to the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti on Tuesday, said a governmental statement on Monday. The sending of the reinforcements will promote the cooperation between the UN mission and the Haiti government in dealing with such emergencies as managing the consequence of the Tropical Storm Jeanne, said the statement.

(Quelle: UN News) Against a backdrop of stepped-up activities by rogue elements in Haiti, the United Nations Security Council today called for the urgent disbanding of all illegal armed groups undermining stability and security in parts of the strife-torn Caribbean country. … The statement ... also urged contributing countries to 'do their utmost to expedite the early deployment of their personnel' in troops and civilian police for the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)

(Quelle: UN News) While the troubled Caribbean nation of Haiti is making tentative steps towards stability and development, Secretary-General Kofi Annan's latest report on the progress of the United Nations peacekeeping mission there warns that the rule of law remains weak and armed groups continue to undermine the country's institutions.

(Quelle: Reliefweb) China is sending 125 riot police on a United Nations peacekeeping mission to Haiti, the Caribbean nation which has full diplomatic ties with Beijing's rival Taiwan, state media reported Sunday. Xinhua news agency said this will be the first time China has ever sent riot police abroad to take part in a UN peacekeeping mission.

(Quelle: Reliefweb) A U.N. peacekeeping mission seeking to restore order in impoverished, unstable, Haiti has been hampered by a shortage of promised international troops and police, a U.N. official said on Thursday. To date, just 2,755 of an authorized 6,700 U.N. troops are on the job in Haiti, not enough to deploy in the troubled north and east, where armed gangs remain a problem, Assistant Secretary-General Hedi Annabi was quoted as telling a closed-door meeting of the U.N. Security Council.

(Quelle: Reliefweb) Commander of the UN peacekeeping troops in Haiti, Brazilian general Augusto Heleno Ribeiro Pereira, said to disarm the Haitians in a short term is impossible, local media reported Monday. Ribeiro, who heads the United Nations Stabilization Mission for Haiti (MINUSTAH), said proliferation of arms has been a problem prevailing for the past 20 years in Haiti, and it's necessary to disarm Haitians in order to improve the country's infrastructure.

(Quelle: NZZ) Haiti findet nach den Unruhen von Anfang Jahr allmählich wieder zur Normalität zurück. Aller Augen richten sich auf die Übergangsregierung von Premierminister Latortue. Diese soll, unterstützt von der Uno-Friedenstruppe, für Sicherheit im Land und für geordnete Wahlen im kommenden Jahr sorgen.