Press Release: Haiti: Council agrees coordinated EU response to UN appeal

On 25 January 2010 the Foreign Affairs Council agreed, in response to a specific request from the United Nations, that EU member states will provide: engineering expertise and equipment to open routes to facilitate aid; a maritime logistic capability which can operate without port facilities; a collective EU contribution of a least 300 personnel to reinforce MINUSTAH's police capability. This includes the contribution made by those EU member states which are part of the European Gendarmerie Force.