Security & Strategic Review - June 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)

HAITI | Withdrawal of Minustah. On 7 June Nigel Fisher, interim head of the United Nations (UN) stabilisation mission in Haiti (Minustah), issued an open letter ‘clarifying’ details of the plan for Minustah’s withdrawal which implicitly indicates that this will not happen at least until after 2016. Fisher recalls that in March he submitted a plan to the UN Security Council which linked the withdrawal to ‘specific objectives and key indicators for capacity building and staffing of the National Police of Haiti (PNH), strengthening the rule of law and the respect for human rights and the strengthening of judicial mechanisms and of control, the development of electoral capacity, the strengthening of the local governance capacity and support an inclusive dialogue.’

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