ALBAWABA - European Commission (EU) spokesman Peter Stano stated that all diplomatic personnel stationed in Haiti have been evacuated because of "the dramatic deterioration of the security situation".
"Currently we have removed and moved, evacuated all the EU staff from Haiti," Stano stated. "We are, of course, assessing the situation and will be adjusting the ways how we operate as the situation, as the security situation develops," he added.
The EU statement comes as a number of diplomatic missions begin to evacuate workers from Haiti, as gang violence in the Caribbean nation's capital, Port-au-Prince, escalates.
CARICOM, an alliance of Caribbean countries, has summoned envoys from the United States, France, Canada, and the United Nations to an emergency meeting in Jamaica on Monday to address the violence and ways to assist Haiti.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be traveling to Jamaica to take part in the CARICOM emergency meeting to "expedite a political transition in Haiti through the creation of a broad-based, independent presidential college as well as the deployment of a Multinational Security Support Mission to address the ongoing security crisis," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said.
