au-Prince, Jan 17, SPA-- Two United Nations stabilization soldiers from Jordan were killed and a third seriously wounded on Tuesday by gunmen in Haiti, a U.N. spokesman said in New York, according to DPA. An earlier report from U.N. officials in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, reported one death and two injuries of U.N. soldiers after an attack by members of an armed gang. The three peacekeepers were manning a checkpoint in the Cite Soleil neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, the capital, when fired upon by gunmen, said Stephane Dujarric in New York, who had no other information on the incident. Just last week, the death of the chief of the U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti, Brazilian General Urano Teizeira da Matta Bacellar, 57, was declared a suicide. He had commanded the 9,000 U.N. troops since August 2005. The troops have met death and severe injuries during the violence that followed the ouster of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristede in February 2004. At a crisis meeting on Monday in Buenos Aires, ministers from seven Latin American countries and representatives from the United Nations and Organization of American States (OAS) called for a reinforcement of U.N. peacekeeping troops.
