Washington, Jul 16 (AP): Joe Biden has mentioned that the US will bolster safety at its embassy in Haiti following final week’s assassination of that nation’s president, however sending American troops to stabilise the nation was “not on the agenda.” Haiti’s interim authorities final week requested the US and the United Nations to deploy troops to guard key infrastructure following President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination. Biden signaled he was not open to the request, which comes as he’s drawing down US forces in Afghanistan this summer season.
“We’re solely sending American Marines to our embassy,” Biden mentioned on Thursday.
“The thought of sending American forces to Haiti is just not on the agenda,” he added.
Mathias Pierre, Haiti’s elections minister, defended the federal government’s request for navy help, saying in an interview on Saturday, saying the native police drive is weak and lacks sources.
The request for US intervention recalled the tumult following Haiti’s final presidential assassination, in 1915, when an offended mob dragged President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam out of the French Embassy and beat him to dying.
In response, President Woodrow Wilson despatched Marines into Haiti, justifying an American navy occupation — which lasted almost twenty years — as a technique to avert anarchy.
Biden addressed the scenario in Haiti throughout a joint press convention on the White Home with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (AP) RHL
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