Haiti asks UN, US to send troops after president’s assassination
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Letter from prime minister’s office pleads for help ‘to restablish security and public order in the whole territory’ amid political chaos.
Haiti has requested that the United Nations and the United States send troops to help secure key infrastructure after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise plunged the country into political turmoil, according to several reports. A letter from the prime minister’s office to the UN offices dated July 7 – the day Moise was shot dead in his home – said the aim was “to support the efforts of the national police aiming to reestablish security and public order in the whole territory”. The letter was reviewed by the Reuters news agency. The 15-member UN Security Council would need to authorise a deployment of UN peacekeepers or police to Haiti.
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