UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's representative in Haiti, Chilean Juan Gabriel Valdes, painted a more encouraging picture in his assessment of the situation, however.
He said that the UN forces had made it possible for Haiti not to have its territory carved up, and to keep the interim government stable.
Yet Valdes did acknowledge that the mission "has not yet succeeded in offering Haitian citizens, especially in Port-au-Prince, an acceptable security situation," a priority ahead of elections.
RSS