EU, UN discuss peacekeeper force in Chad
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The European Union and the United Nations are discussing the possibility of sending an EU peacekeeping force to Chad and Central African Republic for six months to help those affected by the spillover from the Darfur conflict, U.N. diplomats said Friday.
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France's foreign minister hailed Tuesday's resumed deployment of a much-awaited European Union peacekeeping force in Chad, where a rebellion had halted the troop movement.
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A summit of African Union leaders shifted its attention Friday from the crisis in Kenya to Chad, with delegates voicing fears of a major conflict that could scupper peace efforts in Sudan.
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Chad's rebels on Monday urged  European Union member states not to send peacekeeping troops to  the country's east, saying the force would not be neutral  because it was dominated by France.
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The UN Security Council favors a rapid deployment of UN peacekeepers in eastern Chad and northeastern Central African Republic to protect civilians caught in the spillover of fighting in Sudan's Darfur region, diplomats said Tuesday.
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The European Union is to draw up plans for a force to go to countries neighbouring Sudan's Darfur region.
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Chad's President Idriss Deby urged the European Union on Thursday to send a peacekeeping force to his country as quickly as possible.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon has recommended sending up to 11,000 peacekeepers to Chad and the Central African Republic to protect civilians caught in the spillover from Sudan's Darfur conflict.
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A joint United Nations and African Union delegation met Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno to discuss the possible deployment of UN troops in Sudan&#039;s war-ravaged western Darfur region, official sources said.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad will not accept an international military presence on its eastern border with Sudan's Darfur region but wants a civil protection force of police and gendarmes, the government said on Wednesday.
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The deployment of EU peacekeepers to Chad is further delayed, after recent clashes in N'Djamena.
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The European Union called on Chad's  warring government and rebels to negotiate a peace deal, as  relief agencies said on Monday a new refugee crisis was  developing in the east where EU troops are being deployed.
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ABOU GOULEM, Chad  - Muslim tribesmen in east Chad hope EU peacekeepers will shelter their families from civil war and ethnic conflict, but memories of colonial rule have left them wary of Western meddling in their affairs.
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France chairs a Security Council summit on Africa here Tuesday expected to endorse sending European Union and UN troops to Chad and the Central African Republic to protect civilians reeling from a spillover of the Darfur conflict.
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African Union mediators sent a mission to Chad to seek to persuade nervous Sudanese rebel leaders to attend peace talks on the Darfur crisis in the Nigerian capital Abuja.
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Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot whose country currently presides the European Union will discuss the disarmament of Arab militias in Darfur with the Sudanese government during a trip to the country September 9, his ministry announced.
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France is ready to launch a military operation in Chad against rebels if necessary, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday