The United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti,also known as MINUSTAH,an acronym of the French name,was a UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti that was in operation from 2004 to 2017. The mission's military component was led by the Brazilian Army and commanded by a Brazilian. The force was composed of 2,366 military personnel and 2,533 police,supported by international civilian personnel,a local civilian staff and United Nations Volunteers.
Lieutenant-General Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar was a Brazilian soldier. He was born in Bagéin the state of Rio Grande do Sul. He served for 39 years in the Brazilian Army and eventually rose to the rank of Lieutenant-General. He was married and had two children.
A special representative of the Secretary-General is a highly respected expert who has been appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to represent them in meetings with heads of state on critical human rights issues. The representatives can carry out country visits to investigate alleged violations of human rights and act as negotiators on behalf of the United Nations.
Hédi Annabi was a Tunisian diplomat and Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General,Head of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). He was previously an Assistant-Secretary-General at the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations,from 1997 to 2007.
The United Nations Mission in Haiti (UNMIH) was a peacekeeping operation carried out by the United Nations between September 1993 and June 1996. The Mission was reestablished (MINUSTAH) in April 2004,after a rebellion took over most of Haiti and President Bertrand Aristide resigned. This mandate ended in 2017,replaced by United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH),which saw the end of UN peacekeepers in Haiti after its ending in 2019.
Brazil is a founding member of the United Nations and participates in all of its specialized agencies. Brazil is among the twenty top contributors to United Nations peacekeeping operations,and has participated in peacekeeping efforts in the Middle East,the former Belgian Congo,Cyprus,Mozambique,Angola,and more recently East Timor and Haiti. Brazil has been regularly elected as a non-permanent member to the Security Council since its first session in 1946 and is now among the most elected UN member states to the UNSC. Brazil was voted to become a member of the 15-country UN Security Council for a two-year term,in 2022-23.
Julian Harston,son of Colonel Clive Harston,King's African Rifles,is an independent consultant on International Peace and Security matters. He retired as an Assistant Secretary-General in the United Nations. His last post was as the Representative of the Secretary-General in Belgrade,Serbia. Prior to this until March 2009 he was the Special Representative of the Secretary-General heading MINURSO Western Sahara.
Anthony Banbury was appointed the President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) in 2018. He served as United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Field Support until 5 February 2016. He resigned from this position,stating that the UN is in dire need of reform. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience with the UN,he criticized its sclerotic personnel system,a lack of accountability,insufficient impact and the UN's inability to deal with transgressions by its own staff.
Ross Stewart Mountain has spent most of his career in the service of the United Nations working on humanitarian,recovery,development and peacekeeping operations in Asia,Africa,the Middle East,the Caribbean,and the Pacific as well as assignments based in Geneva,Switzerland promoting non-governmental action and managing UN humanitarian operations.
Kim Bolduc is the Deputy Special Representative of United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO). She served previously as the head of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) and the Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). In tandem,she will be also the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator. She has previously held other positions with the United Nations.
The Christopher Hotel was a hotel in Port-au-Prince,Haiti,destroyed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake on 12 January 2010.
Luiz Carlos da Costa was an international civil servant working for the United Nations. Originally from Brazil,da Costa joined the United Nations in 1969 and stayed with the organization for the remainder of his life. His last assignment was as the Principal Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti and second in command of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). He died together with his superior,Tunisian Hédi Annabi,in the 2010 Haiti earthquake. On 18 January 2010,UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and several high-ranking UN officials traveled from New York to Port-au-Prince to see the devastation firsthand. Mr. Ban hosted a small memorial service with both men's families at the airport in Port-au-Prince.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1944,adopted unanimously on October 14,2010,after recalling previous resolutions on Haiti,including resolutions 1542 (2004),1576 (2004),1608 (2005),1658 (2006),1702 (2006),1743 (2006),1780 (2007),1840 (2008),1892 (2009),1908 (2010) and 1927 (2010),the Council renewed the mandate of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) until October 15,2011.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1658,adopted unanimously on February 14,2006,after recalling resolutions 1542 (2004),1576 (2004) and 1608 (2005) on the situation in Haiti,the Council extended the mandate of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) until August 15,2006.
Sandra Honoré served as the United Nations Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). She was appointed to this position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 31 May 2013. and served until the MINUSTAH's mandate expired on October 15,2017. In 2000-2005,she was Chief of Staff to the Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS).
Divisional general Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz is a Brazilian military officer who previously held the post of Force Commander of the United Nations' peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was appointed to this position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 17 May 2013 and replaced by Derrick Mbuyiselo Mgwebi on 29 December 2015. He was Minister-Secretary of Government of Brazil,nominated by President Jair Bolsonaro,from 1 January 2019 to 13 June 2019.
The United Nations Security Council adopted United Nations Security Council resolution 2235 (2015) on 7 August 2015,in response to use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Civil War. The resolution condemned "any use of any toxic chemical,such as chlorine,as a weapon in the Syrian Arab Republic" and expressed determination to identify and hold accountable those responsible for such acts. The resolution established a Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM),a partnership between the United Nations (UN) and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The Security Council renewed the JIM's mandate in resolution 2319 (2016) on 17 November 2016,for a further period of one year.
The United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH) was a peacekeeping mission in Haiti mandated by the United Nations Security Council through Resolutions 2350 (2017) and 2410 (2018). It was the successor to MINUSTAH.
César Guillermo Castillo Reyes is a Guatemalan attorney and politician who is the 17th and current vice president of Guatemala.
The United Nations Transition Mission in Haiti (UNTMIH) was a four-month mission which took place between 30 July 1997 and 30 November 1997. UNTMIH was the third United Nations peacekeeping operation in Haiti,and was established by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1123,adopted on 30 July 1997.
