UN to send more forces to Haiti

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon says he wants to beef up UN peacekeeping forces in Haiti. He also proposes a temporary deployment of two-thousand troops to better respond to the massive quake.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon said, "I recommended that the Security Council raise the number of UN police officers in the Mission by 1,500, about six or seven percent over current levels. I also recommended that the Security Council boost the number of troops by 2,000, a nearly 30 percent increase, for six months."

Ban, also said he asked the UN Security Council to raise the ceiling for the force, which currently has about seven-thousand troops and 2100 police. After his Sunday trip to the Haitian capital. Ban, said two challenges stood out in his mind unclogging bottlenecks to expedite the delivery of aid and improving co-ordination among relief elements. He added the UN itself had suffered the "single biggest loss in the history of the organization."