New Delhi, April 30 -- Bangladesh has agreed to join an international force that will operate independently of the UN to help restore order in Haiti which has spiralled into gang-fuelled chaos, according to a UN spokesperson.

Bangladesh is one of six countries that have written to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that they will contribute personnel to the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti (MSSM), Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Monday.

Invoking the UN Charter provisions for maintaining peace, the Security Council authorised the creation of the MSSM mission to help ameliorate the situation in Haiti by helping its national political force.

Having been burnt by its earlier forays into the Caribbean nation, the UN is...