UN Security Council expands Haiti arms embargo

The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously connected Friday to grow an arms embargo connected Haiti arsenic the impoverished Caribbean federation struggles to wrest power from almighty gangs.

All 15 members voted for the resolution, which calls for U.N. subordinate states to artifact shipments of "arms and related materiel of each types" from entering Haiti.

A erstwhile embargo targeted lone tiny arms and ammunition.

The resolution, drafted by Ecuador and the United States, besides includes a one-year renewal of a committee for monitoring sanctions against definite Haitians.

The Security Council archetypal approved the sanctions authorities successful October 2022, but astatine the clip the measures targeted lone 1 pack leader, Jimmy Cherizier, who uses the alias "Barbecue."

In precocious February, Cherizier launched a coordinated pack revolt successful the superior Port-au-Prince, which yet resulted successful the country's unelected premier curate stepping down and handing powerfulness to a transitional council.

Since then, an interim premier curate has taken bureau and a Kenyan-led multinational unit has arrived successful the state to prop up Haiti's struggling constabulary force, though gangs proceed to wield wide control.

In aboriginal October, an onslaught by the Gran Grif pack successful the municipality of Pont Sonde near astatine slightest 109 radical dormant and dozens wounded successful 1 of the worst massacres successful the nation's caller history.

The person of the gang, Luckson Elan, had been added days earlier to the U.N. sanctions list, which present includes 7 individuals.

U.S. typical Dorothy Shea told the Council connected Friday that the concern successful Haiti "remains dire."

"The United States remains profoundly acrophobic by the information and humanitarian crises successful Haiti. Too galore radical proceed to endure from ongoing violence," she said.

Kenya is acceptable to nonstop 600 further constabulary officers successful November for the enactment mission, which was approved by the U.N. Security Council past twelvemonth but is not a U.N. peacekeeping mission.