GOAL welcomes news of UN troops

deployment to Haiti

January 16th, 2010

GOAL has enthusiastically welcomed the suggestion that the United Nations are to deploy immediately 5,000 policemen on the streets of Port au Prince.

John O’Shea, GOAL CEO said, “This is the most sensible idea hatched by the international community since the disaster struck.

“Given the potential for wholesale violence and looting in the capital, it is absolutely imperative that this decision is taken and that the police are sent in without a moments delay.

"Unless law and order is restored and maintained in the Haitian capital – all the plans and strategies for a massive relief and recovery effort could fail spectacularly.

Aid workers and others have got to be allowed to do their work in a safe environment. That is not the case at the moment."