Haiti’s interim prime minister, Garry Conille, visited Washington, D.C., last week to meet with U.S. officials amid international efforts to restore order to the violence-wracked country.
Warring criminal gangs have destabilized Haiti, displacing 580,000 people — 300,000 of them children — since March and killing an estimated 5,000 people each year, according to United Nations estimates.
Russia’s Permanent Representative to the U.N., Vasily Nebenzya claimed the U.S. is using the illicit flow of arms to Haiti to exert control over the country.
"Washington could have tackled the problem long ago, if it really wanted to. Instead, it seems that our United States colleagues prefer to use illegal arms shipments, on which U.S. arms dealers make money, as leverage to influence the situation.”
That is unsubstantiated.
U.S. lawmakers recognize the role illicit arms play in destabilizing Haiti, and the national security threat that poses to the U.S., spurring wide-ranging efforts to address the issue.
The Congressional Research Service said Haitian authorities lack control over its ports and borders, making the country “a hub for drugs and arms trafficking.”
Still, U.N. experts said arms smugglers in the U.S. are the predominant suppliers of the “deadly arsenals” in Haiti. #factcheck #voanews
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