Wednesday, September 19, 2007

UN: Europe Slow to Contribute to Darfur Peacekeeping Force

The head of U.N. peacekeeping operations says European nations have been slow to offer support for a joint U.N.-African Union police force for Sudan's Darfur region.

In an interview published Wednesday in the French newspaper Le Monde, Jean-Marie Guehenno says the United Nations will have trouble meeting targets for an estimated 6,000-strong police force.

He says the Nordic countries are ready to commit, but he says he still does not have concrete proposals from other nations for high-level engineering units to dig wells or provide transportation systems.

Guehenno says he is most worried that the joint force will not have enough trucks, helicopters and transport equipment to police the region. Read more >>>>>>

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