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Santo Domingo.- Chancellor Roberto Álvarez highlighted today before the United Nations Security Council (UN) that the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti (MSS), operates with limitations due to its low budget, in addition to facing logistical challenges and deficiencies to deploy as the situation demands.
In that sense, the official expressed that the Dominican Republic fully supports the renewal of the mandate of the Integrated Office of the United Nations in Haiti (BINUH, French acronym), and the proposal for an office to assume the operational and logistical aspects to more effectively support the MSS, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.You may be interested in: Iranian President speaks out on the truce with Israel
"Terrorist organizations like Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif, and other criminal networks, control neighborhoods, ports, and trade routes, using drones and sophisticated weapons. They supplant the authorities and exert systematic violence against the Haitian people, particularly against women, girls, children, journalists, and human rights defenders," alerted the foreign minister. Álvarez said that, reflecting the gravity of the Haitian situation, in early June "President Luis Abinader, along with three former Dominican presidents, sent a letter to each Head of State and Government of the members of the Security Council", urging them to act without delay. "That unprecedented action of national unity reflects the conviction of the Dominican leadership about the seriousness of the moment. With equal concern, the President of Kenya, William Ruto, also addressed this Council appealing to its historical responsibility. Both letters converge in the same call: time has run out, it is time to complete the mandate of resolution 2699," he expressed. The Dominican position expressed by Álvarez is that Haiti can be one of the starting points for the United Nations to build, together with the people of that country, a way out of its prolonged crisis, not to impose a vision, but to build it together with the Haitian people. In that order, he affirmed that renewing BINUH's mandate and strengthening the Multinational Security Support Mission is not only an operational necessity, it is a reaffirmation of the UN's credibility and an act of coherence with the principles on which it is based. "It is, above all, an act of justice for the Haitian people," he concluded.
