Haiti PM says country at watershed moment, urges full backing for security force

UNITED NATIONS (CMC) – Haiti’s Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé says the French-speaking Caribbean country is at a “watershed moment” in its struggle against gang violence. He has called for sustained international support alongside stronger national security institutions.

In addressing world leaders on Friday during the 81st Session of the United Nations Debate, Fils-Aimé said criminal violence was threatening communities across the country, but insisted Haiti was neither defeated nor seeking to have others determine its future.

“Haiti will resist. Haiti is standing tall,” he said, urging the international community “not to save it, but to stand side by side with it, while it takes its own destiny into its own hands.”