UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is proposing to shut down the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti by October and replace it with a much smaller UN presence. According to a report, the proposal to close the 13-year-old UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti, known by its French acronym MINUSTAH, comes as the United States is planning major funding cuts to the United Nations. <br/><br/>Guterres said in the report sent to the Security Council last week that all 2,370 soldiers serving in the peacekeeping mission should be gradually withdrawn and that the mission close by October 15, 2017.<br/>'<br/>A new mission would be established that would retain 295 of the current 1,001 police officers serving in MINUSTAH, and<br/>the civilian staff would also be significantly reduced.