The AP investigation found almost 2,000 sexual abuse allegations against United Nations missions around the world over the last 12 years.
The resolution approved by the U.N.'s most powerful body extends the mandate of the mission, known as MINUSTAH, for a final six months during which the 2,370 military personnel will gradually leave.
It said MINUJUSTH would comprise up to seven "formed police units (FPUs)", or 980 FPU personnel, and 295 individual police officers, for an initial six months, from October 16, 2017 until April 15, 2018.
Haitians have welcomed the announcement that the United Nations Security Council had voted to end its 13-year-long peacekeeping mission in their country and replace it with a smaller police force, which would be drawn down after two years as the country boosts its own force.
The U.N. apologized previous year and promised to compensate affected Haitians, but has yet to raise the proposed $400 million for the effort. It adds that in the wake of the allegations, 114 peacekeepers were sent home.
The United States will continue to push for accountability for soldiers accused of sex abuse in Haiti and other missions, she said, before calling on the council to "join me in this effort".
"Peacekeepers do fantastic work but they are very expensive and they should be used only when needed", Rycroft said.
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The American vice president is on a 10-day trip to Asia that has been dominated by the North Korea issue. "It's a major danger". But confrontation and conflict will not resolve the problem, and may worsen it as North Korea is nuclear and unpredictable.
A number of allegations stem from field missions in Haiti, where, according to AP, 134 Sri Lankan peacekeepers operated a sex ring between 2004 and 2007, involving nine children. "Countries that refuse to hold their soldiers accountable must recognize that this either stops, or their troops will go home and the financial compensation will end".
Quoting U.N. data, the Associated Press notes that alleged abusers came from Bangladesh, Brazil, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Uruguay and Sri Lanka.
But the proclamation had a depressingly familiar ring: More than a decade ago, the United Nations commissioned a report that promised to do much the same thing, yet most of the reforms never materialized.
Ten years later, United Nations officials said they were unable to find any members of the mission in Haiti who might have dealt with child victims in the sex ring case and did not know what happened to the children.
Responding to a question on continued deployment by Sri Lankan peacekeepers, in spite of continuing impunity, Mr Dujarric said, "I don't think they continue to deploy".
Haiti suffered a two-year political crisis until the recent election and inauguration of President Jovenel Moise.
Sri Lanka's defence secretary, Karunasena Hettiarachchi, said: "People are quite happy and comfortable with the peacekeepers".
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