UNITED NATIONS, Feb 20 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — The UN Security Council’s work is focused again on Friday on the situation in Haiti, after the United Nations requested $1.4 billion to assist the earthquake victims.
The authority must analyze the work by the UN Stabilization Mission (MINUSTAH) in that Caribbean country, devastated on Jan 12 by a 7.3-degree earthquake.
The world organization raised its request on Thursday to $1.4 billion, after its first call to the international community to contribute $575 million to aid Haiti, three days after the tragedy.
The new request was presented by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and former US President William Clinton, in his status as UN special envoy to Haiti.
The money will be used to aid, for one year, almost three million victims of the earthquake that caused over 20,000 deaths, around 300,000 wounded people and 1,200,000 homeless Haitians.
The main objectives of that aid are sectors as agriculture, education, accommodation, telecommunications, health, food, and others.
The UN Security Council agreed in January to add 3,500 new troops to the MINUSTAH contingent (2,000 soldiers and 1,500 police agents).
That effort will raise the number of soldiers to 8,940 and the UN police agents, composed by members from around 50 countries, to 3,711.
The UN will sponsor a summit on Haiti on March 31 at its headquarters in New York. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA
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