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Security & Strategic Review - July 2026
HAITI: Guterres sees ‘faint glimmers of hope’
On 16 June, United Nations (UN) Secretary General António Guterres paid a visit to Haiti. During his visit he claimed to see “faint glimmers of hope” following the deployment of the Gang Suppression Force (GSF) in April. He also described his trip as a “solidarity visit with the people of Haiti”. The people of Haiti, however, can be forgiven for scepticism. Using almost exactly the same terms, just under three years ago, on 2 October 2023, Haiti’s then-foreign minister, Jean Victor Généus (2021-2024), described the UN Security Council’s authorising of the GSF’s predecessor, the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS), as “an expression of solidarity with a population in distress” and he described the resolution as a “glimmer of hope”. At the time Généus made his comments, there were around 300,000 displaced people in Haiti. Now, at the time Guterres is echoing Généus’ remarks nearly three years later, there are nearly 1.5m displaced people in Haiti.
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