“Deploying a peacekeeping operation at this time is nothing more than putting peacekeepers into the front line of the battles with the gangs. This will expose peacekeepers to great security risks,” Geng Shuang, China’s’ deputy permanent representative to the U.N., said.

Diplomats at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday voiced broad support for converting a security mission helping Haitian police fight escalating gang warfare into a formal U.N. peacekeeping mission,

As gangs escalate violence in Haiti, the UN Security Council debates upgrading the current security mission to a peacekeeping force despite opposition from Russia and China.