By: HaitiAnalysis

According to the Washington Post, "The Bush administration has been posting hundreds of highly confidential U.N. audits and investigation reports on a U.S. government Web site..." One of the U.N. audits released on the United States Mission to the United Nations website deals with the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).

The report, from Mr Juan Gabriel Valdes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, to Patricia Azarias of the UN's International Audit Division I, provides an audit of MINUSTAH security operations conducted between September and October of 2004. The report primarily deals with problems of manpower and infrastructure.

At the time, MINUSTAH had "not found a location in Port-au-Prince to serve as Mission headquarters. Personnel and assets were scattered at eight different locations: there were four office locations, two warehouses, one medical facility location and one helipad location." The report adds that this "presented increased risks in providing suitable security in all eight locations as resources had to be thinly spread among them."

In response, MINUSTAH contracted two security companies and "tasked most of its 138 local staff, with the help of military contingents, to provide security at these locations." MINUSTAH responded to the audit that it had created a single headquarters established inside the facilities of the Christopher Hotel.

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HaitiAnalysis provides below a full version of the released United Nations interoffice memorandum from its Internal Audit Division I, Office of International Oversight Services.