President Biden Asked How The US Can Handle the 'Coordinated Militia' In Haiti

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At a press briefing on Thursday with Kenyan President William Ruto, President Biden was asked about Haiti.

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00:00 Next question from April Ryan.

00:02 Mr. President, President Biden, President Ruto, thank you. First of all, when you talk about

00:12 Haiti, President Ruto, you said Haiti is a collective responsibility for all nations.

00:17 And for you, Mr. President, President Biden, President Ruto, do you believe that these

00:24 nations can break the back of this militia that has gripped the nation there? And also,

00:30 when it comes to Congo, thank you, Mr. President, for bringing up what the United States is doing

00:34 for the Congo, especially as that flag was behind you at Morehouse. Mr. President, could you tell

00:42 me what the African Union is doing, as well as Kenya is doing when it comes to the humanitarian

00:47 crisis in the Congo? Thank you. What was my question? Sir, your question was Haiti. Can

00:59 United States and Kenya or the nations collectively break the backs of this

01:04 coordinated militia that has the grips of the nation? Yes.

01:14 The very way we're doing it. We're not talking about a thousand person army that's made up of

01:21 trained. This is a crisis that's able to be dealt with. And we think we can build

01:26 with this way with a multinational approach, with Haiti leading the way and us providing

01:32 intelligence as well as equipment. Gangs and criminals

01:42 do not have nationalities. They have no religion. They have no language.

01:49 Their language is one to deal with them family,

01:56 decisively within the parameters of the law. And that's why we're building a coalition

02:06 of nations beyond Kenya and the US. Many who are making contribution towards the MSS force in Haiti

02:15 to secure that country and to break the back of the gangs and the criminals that have

02:27 visited and told suffering in that country. On DRC, the AU, the East African community and Kenya

02:38 are seized with that matter. I've just told you that Kenya had a thousand troops in Haiti. We now

02:46 have another 800, not in Haiti, but in DRC. We now have another 800 troops from SADC.

02:56 We are going to be having a meeting of the East African community.

03:00 I did send my foreign minister to Kinshasa. They had a conversation. And shortly,

03:11 we will be looking at how to begin the dialogue process under the Nairobi process,

03:18 because we believe there is no military solution to what is going on in DRC. But instead,

03:25 dialogue should be able to give us the necessary momentum and outcomes that would sell the matters

03:34 in Eastern DRC. So both the AU, the East African community and Kenya as a country are seized

03:42 of that matter. We know that the humanitarian crisis in Eastern DRC has displaced close to

03:50 seven million people. And I want to thank the United States of America for stepping in with

03:56 humanitarian support for that region, because it is a collaboration of different countries

04:05 in different ways to deal with that situation. The rest of us are committing troops.

04:10 We are committing our – deploying our infrastructure to facilitate the resolution

04:19 of the Mata Tindyar Sea.

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