United Nations Mission in Haiti

United Nations Mission in Haiti ( UNMIH, German: the United Nations Mission in Haiti) was a UN peacekeeping mission and based on UN Resolution 867 of 23 September 1993 and took place from September 1993 to June 1996. Had the mandate to end the modernization of the armed forces to build a new police force in Haiti as well as the preparation of free and fair elections. In July, the Mission to Support the United Nations Mission in Haiti (English: Support Mission in Haiti, shortly UNSMIH ) and renamed for the last time extended its mandate from the UN Security Council until 31 May 1997. However, it reserved the right to a further extension of two months.

UNMIH was performed at the beginning of December 1992 by the Representative of the UN Secretary General M. Dante Caputo of Argentina, who was also an envoy of the Secretary General of the Organization of American States at the same time. After the mission was underway, he was from September 1993 Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and Head of Mission. From September 1994 to March 1996 took over Lakhdar Brahimi of Algeria the office, which was recently replaced by Enrique ter Horst from Venezuela in this function. Ter Horst, following which the follow-on mission UNSMIH. Commander of the military unit deployed from October 1993, Colonel Gregg Pulley from the U.S.., Major General Joseph Kinzer (USA) was responsible for task forces from January 1995 to March 1996 Brigade General JRP Daigle removed from Canada who was this office was continuing to June 1996 and then also used in UNSMIH. Responsible for the police forces deployed since October 1993 was initially the Canadian Superintendent Jean -Jacques Lemay, from July 1994 to February 1996 his compatriot Chief Superintendent Neil Pouliot and finally Colonel Philippe Balladur of France. The staff strength of the forces deployed in UNMIH was up to 6065 men. The mission was supported by Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Djibouti, France, Guatemala, Guinea- Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Jordan, Canada, Mali, Nepal, New Zealand, Netherlands, Austria, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Suriname, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, and the United States During the mission came six military officers and three police officers from the UNMIH mission killed.

The mission was resumed in April 2004 after renewed violence with the resolution on MINUSTAH.