Chad's Deby urges EU force to take up positions
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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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The UN Security Council has expressed its support for a joint United Nations-European Union security force for eastern Chad and the northeastern region of the Central Africa Republic in order to protect civilians affected by strife in neighbouring Darfur.
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The European Union and the  United Nations are considering sending troops and police to  protect Darfur refugees and other homeless people in  neighboring Chad, a senior U.N. official said on Friday.
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The United Nations has urged European countries to provide troops to a peacekeeping force in Lebanon as the Beirut government moved ahead with a historic deployment of army troops to the south to shore up a fragile truce.
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France declared it would intervene to protect the Chadian government if called upon and a Darfur rebel group said it had sent troops to help bolster the president.
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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 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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Chad's President Idriss Deby called  on the European Union on Thursday to deploy a peacekeeping  force urgently to the east after rebels who raided his capital  pulled back halfway towards the Sudan border.
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Tony Blair has written to each EU member in a bid to put pressure on the Sudanese government regarding Darfur.
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France, Belgium and Poland pledged Friday to fill the gaps in a European peacekeeping force for Chad and the Central African Republic, setting the delayed mission on track to be deployed next month.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged  European Union nations on Monday to accept a greater share of  defense spending to cope with escalating global threats.
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N'DJAMENA  - 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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Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno issued a "solemn call" Thursday for a European peacekeeping force for Darfur refugees, put on hold by recent unrest in his country, to deploy as soon as possible.
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France warns rebels in Chad that it could intervene if they continue to threaten the capital, N'Djamena.
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The European Union and the United Nations are considering sending troops and police to  protect Darfur refugees and other homeless people in neighboring Chad, a senior U.N. official said on Friday.
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France, Belgium and Poland pledged Friday to provide the resources needed to launch a European Union peacekeeping force for Chad and the Central African Republic, an EU diplomat said.
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French officials sought on Wednesday to ease tensions with Chad after President Nicolas Sarkozy offended local sensibilities by promising to bring home a group of Europeans accused of abducting 103 African children.