Prime Minister Garry Conille sharply criticized the international community for providing assistance that fails to address security issues, for unmet promises regarding the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS), and for its refusal to supply military-type equipment to Haiti to combat gangs and urban guerrilla warfare, during a citizens’ forum on Saturday, November 2, 2024.

“One of the urgent needs to enhance security is to bolster the army’s numbers. We are facing urban guerrilla warfare,” said Garry Conille, commenting that elsewhere, the army would already be mobilized. “Since I took office, I have hastened to inform the international community that the quality and quantity of aid the country receives is inadequate and will not resolve the problem,” he stated. “We need helicopters, better drones. There are essential pieces of equipment that you refuse to provide us because you claim they can only be given to the army. If we had been given sophisticated intelligence equipment, it would have yielded better results for the PNH. I’ve said that the overall approach to assistance will not allow us to emerge from this crisis,” continued Prime Minister Garry Conille, who referenced a broken promise concerning the MSS.