UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and China on Wednesday opposed a U.S.-led campaign to transform the Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti helping police to tackle escalating gang violence into a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

A top Kenyan security advisor said on Wednesday that her nation backs calls from Haiti for the United Nations to consider turning a current international security mission in the Caribbean nation into a formal U.

It has been revealed that the government, through the National Treasury, has spent Ksh.2.1 billion on the Multinational Security Support mission in Haiti. This comes despite earlier assurances from the government that no taxpayer money would be used to send 1,

US diplomats have been pressing for rapid action, pointing to the need for consistent funding and a unified international approach. Haiti’s government has called for a UN peacekeeping force to increase funding to aid the mission—a request supported by the Organisation of American States.

The United States has stepped up its campaign to transform the Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti into a U.N. peacekeeping force, spurred by escalating gang violence that shut all air traffic to the capital Port-au-Prince this week.

The US Embassy in Haiti said in an advisory Incidents of armed violence and disruptions to ports and airports are widespread in Port-au-Prince. The United States proposed a U.N. peacekeeping mission in early September as one way to secure regular financing for the U.N.-backed multinational force.

This comes after the latest meeting of the UN Security Council as the Haiti mission continues to face a serious cash crunch.

Russia has called for more support for the Kenyan police in Haiti, a day after rejecting a United States-led proposal to turn the Kenya-led police mission in Haiti into a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operation.