UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 15 -- None of the guns in the hands of Haiti's gangs are made in Haiti, and on Wednesday the Security Council renewed the sanctions meant to cut off their supply, over the abstention of Russia.

Resolution 2831 (2026) passed by 14 votes to none at the Council's 10241st meeting. The Council's own release says the regime was renewed for one year, with its travel ban, asset freeze and arms embargo intact; UN News reported that the work of the sanctions committee was extended by 13 months. Both can be true if the regime and a panel's mandate run on different clocks, but TEH could not read the resolution text to check, and the release announces no new designations.

Russia said the text has "seemingly noble elements" but w...