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UN council calls for peaceful protests in Haiti
UNITED NATIONS, United States, Feb 22, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – The UN Security
Council on Thursday appealed to Haitians to hold peaceful protests after
meeting behind closed doors to discuss the violence that has killed at least
seven people.
In a unanimous statement, the council expressed concern and “urged all
citizens to express themselves peacefully”, said Equatorial Guinea’s
Ambassador Antonio Ndong Mba, who holds the council presidency this month.
Haiti has been rocked by more than ten days of anti-government protests
that prompted the United States to advise its citizens against traveling to
the Caribbean island-nation.
The United States, France and Germany requested the meeting to discuss the
flare-up in Haiti, where the United Nations has a small police peacekeeping
force of about 1,000.
The Security Council shut down a bigger peacekeeping mission known as
MINUSTAH in 2017 after deciding that the country was on a path toward
stability.
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