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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Apr 17, 2015
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• Category : Haiti News
• Description : BY JACQUELINE CHARLES, JCHARLES@MIAMIHERALD.COM
  04/14/2015 1:34 PM | Updated: 04/14/2015 4:15 PM
  
  Photo: In a visit to Haiti in January, members of the U.N. Security Council visited with Chilean peacekeepers with their stabilization mission in Haiti known as MINUSTAH. MIAMI HERALD STAFF JACQUELINE CHARLES
• Location : Haiti
• Website : http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article18501413.html

Overview

• U.N. officials are calling on Haitian authorities to conduct a “swift investigation” into the death of a Chilean peacekeeper who died of injuries from a gunshot wound Monday in the northeast region of Haiti.
  
  Rodrigo Andrés Sanhueza Soto was on his way to administrative duty when his vehicle came under fire in the northeast city of Ouanaminthe near the Haiti-Dominican Republic border. He is a second sergeant serving in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti known by its French acronym, MINUSTAH.
  
  U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed his sincere condolences to the family of the peacekeeper as well as to the government and the people of Chile.
  
  “The Secretary-General calls for a swift investigation and urges the Haitian authorities to do everything possible to bring those responsible to justice,” the U.N. said in a statement.
  
  The incident was also condemned by the members of the Security Council. Members said they too look forward “to the completion of a full and comprehensive investigation to determine the facts and circumstances of the incident.”
  
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