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AU aims to
create African Intervention force by 2010
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ADDIS
ABABA(July 5 - 6, 2008)
- The African Union has ambitions to create a rapid intervention force
to be deployed immediately before accidental conflicts lead to war
and chaos.
This was revealed at the conclusion of the AU's 11th Summit of Heads
of State and Government in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, during which the
leaders called for bringing about the necessary financial and technical
support for the creation of what is to be called the African Rapid
Intervention Force by 2010, according to a news report Friday.
In that respect, African leaders urged the AU Commission, concerned
African organisations and groups as well as the member states to implement
the recommendations of the African Defence and Security Ministers
relating to the rapid intervention force, the report t said adding
that, that was found necessary to speed up its creation.
The report noted that African leaders "categorically" condemned
the use of force, particularly on the part of Eritrea and called for
normalising the situation on the Djibouti-Eritrea borders.
“They invited all the parts involved to resort to peaceful means
to solve disagreements, highlighting the possibility of reaching a
formula helping facilitate the resumption of the good neighbourly
relations and cooperation as soon as possible,” the BuaNews
report noted.
Concerning the situation in Sudan, the African leaders hailed the
renewed commitment of the Sudanese government and the Sudan Popular
Liberation Movement to work for the implementation of their peace
agreement as well as the implementation of Abyei Protocol, in order
to find a final solution to the crisis.
The African leaders underlined the serious repercussions of tensions
which mark Sudanese-Chadian relations.
They deplored that the bonds between these two countries were always
dominated by "distrust" in spite of the meetings held by
the contact group chaired by Libya and the Democratic Republic of
Congo.
For this purpose, the relevant resolution adopted by the 11th summit
pointed out the agreement signed by the two countries last March in
Dakar, by virtue of which they commit to put a term at the activities
of armed groups and to prohibit the use of the territories of each
of the two countries to undertake activities threatening the stability
of the other.
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