The UN Security Council will vote Monday afternoon on establishing an international mission to support the police in Haiti, which is suffering from gang violence, according to its program announced on Sunday.

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres have been calling for a year to send an international force to help the police confront this growing violence.

After it was impossible to find a country that would volunteer to lead this non-international force, Kenya expressed at the end of July its readiness to lead the mission and deploy a thousand elements in the poor country in the Caribbean islands.

The United States intends to provide logistical support to the force, which does not include deploying security forces on the ground. At the end of September, she said that many other countries intended to participate in this “international mission to support security.”

After weeks of talks on the mission's mandate, Security Council members will vote on Monday afternoon on a resolution aimed at approving it.

During the General Assembly of the international organization ten days ago, the Prime Minister of Haiti renewed his appeal to the international community to act “urgently” to help his citizens.

A report by Guterres issued this week stated that the multifaceted crisis facing Haiti has become more serious since a year ago.

The Secretary-General said that the violence of the gangs that have tightened their control over the capital and outside it has become "more brutal," pointing to the use of rape as a weapon of intimidation and the deployment of snipers on rooftops and burning residents alive.

The report counted the killing of about 2,800 people between October 2022 and June 2023, about eighty of whom were minors.

For its part, China, which has veto power in the Security Council, has questioned in recent months the opportunity to send an international force, stressing first the importance of eliminating arms smuggling operations from the state of Florida.