Haiti’s prime minister to resign once transition is in place, official says
LA TimesSecretary of State Antony J. Blinken boards a plane Monday to Kingston, Jamaica, for emergency talks with Caribbean leaders on Haiti’s crisis. Caribbean leaders said late Monday that they “acknowledge the resignation of Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry” once a transitional presidential council is created and an interim premier named. Before sharing details of the proposed transitional council, Ali said, “I want to pause and thank Prime Minister Henry for his service to Haiti.” Earlier Monday, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness said the meeting was a work in progress. “We are deeply distressed that it is already too late for too many who have lost far too much at the hands of criminal gangs.” Henry, who has faced calls to resign or agree to a transitional council, has been locked out of his country while traveling abroad, due to surging unrest and violence by criminal gangs who have overrun much of Haiti’s capital and closed down its main international airports. The U.N. Security Council on Monday urged Haiti’s gangs “to immediately cease their destabilizing actions,” including sexual violence and the recruitment of children, and said it expects that a multinational force will deploy as soon as possible to help end the violence.