Friday, February 9, Guinea's Bintou Keita, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, ended her 4-day mission to Haiti to assess the progress of the United Nations Mission for the Support of Justice in Haiti (Minujusth) and to determine unifying milestones for strengthening the rule of law. She confirmed the commitment made during her meeting with President Moïse, that Minujusth would stay in Haiti for only two years to accompany the national authorities in the consolidation of the rule of law, stressing that this is about a relatively short period for missions of this type.

The UN representative, on her last day of work, signed an agreement with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), which strengthens the joint actions of the UN organization and at the same time, paves the way towards sustainable progress, especially in building the capacity of national institutions, the local private sector, civil society and communities in Haiti.

During her stay, Keita met the stakeholders of the Civil Society in Port-au-Prince as well as the Office of Citizen Protection and the Superior Council of the Judiciary, in order to identify with them the actions to put in place to advance the issue of human rights. The Assistant Secretary-General then addressed all Minujusth teams to commend their work and commitment to the implementation of the mandate. She also visited the Constitute Police Unit (FPU) of Rwandan at Minujusth in Grand'Anse (South) and visited the prion of Jérémie which has 304 detainees of which only 51 were judged...

Recall that the Minjusth, which replaced in October 2017 https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-23185-icihaiti-justice-minujusth-s-innovative-approach-to-strengthening-the-rule-of-law.html the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, has no military personnel and is composed of 7 constituted police units (980 persons) and 295 police officers outside constituted units https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-20656-haiti-flash-bye-bye-the-minustah-hello-the-minujusth.html

See also :

https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-23498-icihaiti-un-first-visit-of-bintou-keita-to-the-country.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-22590-haiti-un-a-woman-at-the-head-of-minujusth.html

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