Monday, July 3rd, 2023, during the 45th regular meeting of Heads of State and Government of Caricom (July 3 to 5), António Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations Organization (UN), insisted with the international community on the need to train a foreign security force for an intervention in Haiti.

He told the media "[...] countries in Africa and the Caribbean have shown their willingness to participate in an intervention and the most important thing is that we need countries that have strong police forces and the equipment and logistical support needed to volunteer [...] Solutions must be found in terms of crime and security, in terms of political stability. There is a huge humanitarian crisis in Haiti that no one seems to be paying attention to [...]"

"We must collectively do more to help the people of Haiti chart the best path to elections and a political solution," Guterres said after a bilateral meeting with Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Keith Rowley in Port of Spain.

"There can be no lasting security without insisting on democratic institutions. And there can be no institutions of strong democracies without a drastic improvement in the security situation," in this sense Guterres advocates the "deployment of an international security force authorized by the Security Council and which cooperates with the National Police of Haiti to dismantle the gangs that have created this unprecedented violence."

Carla Barnett, Secretary General of Caricom, said that the Caribbean community will not intervene in Haiti "if the Haitian people do not want it."

Moreover, she underlined "there are problems that prevent [this intervention] from being implemented. For example, legal authority to do so. There is no UN Security Council resolution providing for this at the moment, so there are things that need to be resolved before this can be achieved."

SL/ HaitiLibre