Haiti political plan needed to overcome intervention ‘stalemate’: UN chief

AFP :
The current international “stalemate” over sending a security force to stabilize Haiti may be broken if a credible plan is found for the crisis-wracked country’s political future, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday.

Guterres and Haitian leaders have pushed for months for a new international mission to stabilize the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation, which has not held national elections since 2016 and has been wracked by gang violence, a worsening public health situation and political instability.

“There is indeed some reluctance from the countries that have a stronger capacity to be able to lead this kind of operation,” Guterres said at a press conference in Kingston alongside Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness.

“The only way in my opinion to overcome this reluctance… is to put in place a political process that is credible,” said Gutteres, who described the current situation as “kind of a stalemate.”