We won't deploy troops to Haiti unless conditions are met - Kindiki - video Dailymotion

The Kenya Kwanza government now says Kenyan troops will not be deployed for the Haiti mission unless all conditions are met. https://bit.ly/473WzPj

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00:00 The first condition was met on October 2nd, 2023, when the UN Security Council passed

00:13 Resolution 2699 of 2023, giving the multinational support mission to Haiti legal backing.

00:27 The second condition, which is the mobilization of all the resources required to prepare,

00:35 deploy, sustain, and eventually withdraw our police officers from Haiti.

00:44 That exercise is going on, is being coordinated by our Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs,

00:53 and just again to emphasize, Kenya will not deploy if all the resources required are not

01:07 assured, committed to, and available.

01:14 And those resources include the equipment that we require for the mission to be successful.

01:21 We have agreed on a number of things, but first of all, the resources for this mission

01:27 will be arranged or mobilized among the member states of the United Nations, and they have

01:40 already identified the way the funds will be mobilized and how they will be made available

01:47 for us.

01:48 The only assurance that I want to give Honorable Chairs is that unless all resources are mobilized

01:57 and available, our troops will not leave the country.

02:02 Not even one of them will leave Kenya.

02:06 So that work is ongoing, including the mobilization of equipment, and once again, our troops,

02:13 not even one of them, our forces, our officers, will not leave the soil of Kenya until the

02:19 equipment that is required on the ground in Haiti is in place.

02:24 So that work is ongoing.

02:25 Thank you.

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