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Al Jazeera Staff

US says Haiti security mission could deploy ‘in months’, urges support

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, flanked by Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry (left) and Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Alfred Nganga Mutua (right) during a meeting on the security situation in Haiti, in New York on September 22, 2023 [Bing Guan/Reuters]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said a Kenya-led, international security mission to Haiti could deploy “in months”, urging the United Nations Security Council to authorise the deployment as soon as possible.

Speaking on Friday morning at a start of a UN meeting in New York on the situation in Haiti, Blinken said the United States would supply “robust financial and logistical assistance” to the proposed mission.

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