The US, the most influential foreign player in Haiti, had earlier pushed for elections to go ahead this year to restore democratic legitimacy amid a power vacuum.
Haitian migrants rest as they cross the jungle of the Darien Gap in Colombia on their way to Panama in their quest for the United States on September 26, 2021NEW YORK - UN Security Council powers including the United States on Monday accepted that Haiti's elections will be delayed until the second half of 2022 at the latest as the impoverished nation is hit by repeated crises.
Addressing the Security Council, the UN secretary-general's special representative on Haiti, Helen La Lime, highlighted an agreement last month among political parties that called for a new provisional electoral council and inclusion of the diaspora. Moise was assassinated in July, and Haiti was later rocked by an earthquake and tropical storm, bringing more instability to a country already ravaged by violence.
Speaking to AFP after the meeting, Haitian Foreign Minister Claude Joseph said that Moise's assassination had"ruined everything" on election planning.