Overview

• The council adopted the resolution with 12 votes in favor and abstentions by Russia, China and Pakistan, authorizing a one-year deployment.
• The mission is empowered to conduct intelligence-led, targeted operations against gangs and to detain suspects independently or with the Haitian National Police.
• A new UN support office in Haiti will provide logistical and administrative support to the expanded force.
• The operation will cap at 5,500 police and soldiers, roughly five times the size of the Kenyan-led MSS it replaces.
• The initiative was introduced by the United States and Panama as Haiti faces massive displacement and entrenched insecurity.