Abbreviation | MINUSTAH (French: Mission des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation en Haïti) |
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Formation | 1 June 2004 |
Dissolved | 13 April 2017 |
Type | Peacekeeping mission |
Legal status | Replaced by MINUJUSTH |
Head | Sandra Honoré (Special Representative of the Secretary-General) |
Parent organization | UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations Security Council |
Website | UN Peacekeeping: MINUSTAH, www.minustah.org (in French) |
The United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (French: Mission des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation en Haïti), also known as MINUSTAH, an acronym of its French name, was a UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti from 2004 to 2017. It was composed of 2,366 military personnel and 2,533 police, supported by international civilian personnel, a local civilian staff, and United Nations Volunteers.[1] The mission's military component was led by the Brazilian Army and commanded by a Brazilian.
The devastating January 2010 Haiti earthquake destroyed MINUSTAH's headquarters in Port-au-Prince and killed its chief, Hédi Annabi of Tunisia, his deputy Luiz Carlos da Costa of Brazil, and the acting police commissioner, RCMP Supt. Doug Coates of Canada.[2][3][4] The mission subsequently concentrated on assisting the Haitian National Police in providing security, while American and Canadian military forces distributed and facilitated humanitarian aid.[5] Due to fears of instability following the earthquake,[6] United Nations Security Council Resolution 1944 extended MINUSTAH's mandate,[7] and it was periodically renewed until 2017.[8]
On 13 April 2017, the United Nations Security Council announced that the mission would end in October 2017.[9] It was replaced by a much smaller follow-up mission, the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH),[10] which itself concluded in 2019.
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