The United States and Haiti called Monday for transforming the multi-national security mission deployed in the troubled Caribbean country into a more robust force to target powerful gangs.

The UN Security Council is expected to vote soon on strengthening the security force.

The United Nations Security Council approved the creation of the Multinational Security Mission (MSS), led by Kenya, to support the overwhelmed Haitian police in 2023 in their fight against rampant gang violence.

But the force, under-equipped and under-funded, has deployed only a thousand officers of the 2,500 that had been expected.

The mission "remains limited in its ability to act," Haitian transitional presidential council president Laurent Saint-Cyr said Monday.

"(It) has not yet been able to sustainably secur

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