Gang Suppression Force

He also detailed over 230 kidnappings and more than 1,000 rapes.

Last week, the UN Security Council renewed the Gang Suppression Force mandate.

It now runs through March 31st of 2027.

We've got two perspectives to summarize here.

Now, Rubio tried this sort of, um, shell game with UN peacekeeping funds to say, "Okay, we're gonna make another office, and they're gonna provide the logistics for this new force" that he put in.

Called the Gang Suppression Force.

Now, that hasn't really worked too well because a lot of the UN, uh, uh, one, they were sort of outraged by this violation of UN, uh, law and, uh, protocol, and two, the UN is having its own financial crisis.

It was, it was gonna go out of business this, uh, summer and, you know, they keep giving it, uh, extension and extension on life, but, but the, you know, the UN is in very, very bad, uh, fiscal shape and, uh, financial shape.

"Others have naval and coast guard personnel who could be deployed, but have no vessels.

There is equipment," she added, "but no airlift." The list underscores some of the practical challenges facing the latest armed international mission in Haiti, the Gang Suppression Force, whose fate came before the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday.

"The personnel need the right equipment to deploy and operate," said Daniela Kozlak, a UN Assistant Secretary General and head of the UN Support Office in Haiti, responsible, among other things, for helping get the forces to Portau- Port-au-Prince.

That is an important aspect.

The Gang Suppression Force was authorized a year ago for 5,500 personnel and was pitched as a much more robust force than its predecessor, the police-led Multinational Security Support Mission, headed by Kenya.

The Kenya-led force never achieved the 2,500 personnel it was supposed to have before departing for- from Haiti in April.

And while there are more gang-fighting soldiers in Haiti today, the new force's slow buildup remains a frustration.

Simultaneously, he hasn't gotten nearly the level of international help that he was hoping for.

A multinational UN-authorized mission called the Gang Suppression Force took over operations in Haiti in October 2025, replacing a Kenya-led mission with an expected force size of 5,500 security personnel from all over the world.

As of now, however, fewer than 1,100 have arrived in Haiti, even though the GSF was expected to reach its quota by October 2026.

And as for the strength of Haiti's internal security forces, well, those 1,500 newly trained soldiers managed to double the size of the Haitian armed forces.

are more than capable of luring the nation's troops into protracted, costly urban battles, where soldiers and police would have to fight meter by meter in crowded environments, where civilians would almost certainly be forced to remain as hostages.

The Haitian government could try to address that issue over time.

That's the goal behind the recent efforts to beef up the Haitian military and police force, as well as the international attempt to provide the gang suppression force.

But building up its forces will take multiple years, and if the Haitian government wants to take back towns or neighborhoods within the capital, it would need to rely on slow, drawn-out clearing operations in order to avoid casualties wherever possible.

Haiti is currently without a president and is expected to have elections in December, which would be the first since 2016, if security conditions allow for them to go forward.

The Gang Suppression Force, a UN-backed armed force that is meant to help local police deal with gang violence in the country, was supposed to be fully staffed by this October with 5,500 uniformed personnel and 50 civilian staff.

That deadline is not likely to be met.

As of July, less than 1,000 people had arrived as part of the force.

Furthermore, Mongolia has made tangible contributions to global efforts to maintain international peace and security through its active participation in the United Nations peacekeeping operations and other international missions, having deployed more than 23,000 military and police personnel to hotspots around the world since 2002.

Even today, our troops are serving in the Gang Suppression Force multinational police and military mission deployed to Haiti.

Mongolia has been actively advancing the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, Women, Peace and Security, and has become one of the few countries to have reached 15% women's participation and representation among its military personnel serving in UNPKOs.

Since 2006, when Mongolia deployed its first female peacekeeper to the UN mission in Western Sahara, Mongolian women have made valuable contributions to global peace over the past two decades through their courage, resilience, and ingenuity.

Yes, of course.

And the gangs have shown that they are preparing themselves for combats when the gang suppression force that is being deployed will start operations against them.

And elections should be a perfect occasion for them to show how powerful they are.

If they are able to undermine the polls and the day of the elections and even during the campaigns, they will show that nothing can move forward until this gang threat is weakened or removed.

So I do want to ask you next about the Gang Suppression Force, which we'll discuss at length, which is a, let's call it a UN-backed force, though they're not UN peacekeepers that are deploying, but rather troops that are from around the world, but kind of supported with a degree of backing from other countries.

And we'll explain that in a second.

But first, can you just describe also the trajectory of gang control over parts of Haiti? You mentioned earlier that gangs at this point control 80 to 90 percent of Port-au-Prince, most of the densely populated areas of the country as well.

And several other important public officials have been kidnapped, including one this weekend in the Artibonite region.