Mexico's Secretariat of Foreign Affairs announced the personnel will join as staff in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti and as observers in the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara. No specific date for deployment has been announced.

"These types of missions approved by the Security Council of the U.N. contribute to the goal of working for the maintenance of international peace and security," the secretariat said in a statement. "With this determination, Mexico reiterates . . .