Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 12/2009

What Role for the United Nations in Haiti?

Robert Maguire

November 2009

United States Institute of Peace

Abstract

On October 13, 2009, the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a one-year extension of the mandate for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). The sixth mission since 1995, MINUSTAH was first authorized in 2004.