Canada adheres to $ 60 million to Hitie, the United Nations wants to support the US Gangs Futural Plan – National

Canada pledged 60 million dollars to help Haiti Fighting criminal gangs Braziv, with most of the usual financing on United Nations Supporting an American plan to expand the police mission in the gang suppression force.

“We have to work collectively towards regional peace and regional security,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs Anit Anand on Tuesday in an event that she participated in hosting with her Haiti counterpart at the United Nations.

Haiti has been subjected to violence and political chaos since 2021 and armed gangs control most of the country. Canada targeted the members of the economic elite in Haiti with sanctions, on the pretext that they collaborated with gangs’ instability throughout the country.

In June 2024, Kenya launched a mission with the support of the United Nations aimed at enabling the Haiti police and gang fighting, with the aim of establishing peace and allowing the elections.

Canada mostly helped the task by coordinating international aid, monitoring and training.

This week, the administration of US President Donald Trump is pushing the United Nations Security Council to replace the task with the power of suppressing a larger and best gang.

Anand told the meeting that she participated in her hosting on Tuesday that the proposed “renewed and improved security mission” is very important to reopen schools and stop the hunger crisis that stems from widespread violence and the theft of property by gangs.

She said that Canada was ready to spend $ 40 million to support that mission, if adopted by the United Nations.

Anand also announced $ 20 million in marine security in the Caribbean Sea region aimed at stopping the flow of weapons and drugs in Haiti and crossing.

Canada has already pledged 80 million dollars for the current police mission led by Kenya.

Anand said: “As the second largest financial contributor to the mission, we are clearly committed to its success and we are counting on other partners to increase their support,” Anand said.

“Since the decision is currently suggesting an increase in size, financing, employees and equipment, their needs will be greater than ever.”

This week, Kenyan President William Roto said that the ongoing task has been struggled to succeed with only 40 percent of the 2500 security personnel who were designed for them.

Anand said that the transitional government of Haiti will find it difficult to obtain international support if it does not have “concrete progress … towards free and fair elections” and “economic reforms to enhance competition in the local market.”

In Parliament Hill, members of Parliament pressure officials on Tuesday at the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives on whether Canada had been sending forces to Haiti as part of the new United Nations mission.

Mark Richardson, director of global affairs in Canada in the Caribbean region, has witnessed that it was “very early” to hold these talks.

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Conservative MP Shufallawi Magmdar asked those responsible for what Canada is doing to prevent the conversion of Canadian aid sent through the United Nations from reaching the Haiti gangs. He suggested that the Oligarshists who support gangs have been enriched with external aid.

“The economic elite has been created … by converting aid over the past decade. In many ways, the people who were benefiting and maintaining their positions in power have asked for the gangs that provide them.”

He asked whether Canadian aid has been transferred to gangs since Ottawa began responding to the security crisis in Haiti.

“There were no cases, in terms of misuse, for the Canadian resources that he had realized since 2022,” Ian Miles, the executive director of the Haiti Department in Global Affairs.

He said that Canada has a “high degree of confidence” in accountability and investigation mechanisms that the United Nations employs to ensure that aid money is not transferred and has a positive impact on the ground.

There should be “political pressure from the Canadian government on our American neighbors” to stop exporting American weapons to the Caribbean.

“The problem comes from the United States,” he said.

Miles answered that the United States did not deny this problem and that US officials were facing a complex situation in an attempt to stop the flow of weapons.

Many Caribbean leaders raised the US arms problem at the Ottawa summit, which it hosted in 2023 of the Caricom Group in countries.

Liberal MP Ahmed Hussein, Chairman of the Committee, said that he is concerned about the gangs that use social media “to inflate and intimidate people,” noting an example that shows the depth of violence in Haiti.

“There is a video of beheading by the Amir of War, for a civilian on Facebook Live,” he said. “It’s not once, it’s not twice – it’s several times.”

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